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Modularization in Belief-Desire-Intention agent programming and artifact-based environments

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Názov: Modularization in Belief-Desire-Intention agent programming and artifact-based environments
Autori: Gustavo Ortiz-Hernández, Alejandro Guerra-Hernández, Jomi F. Hübner, Wulfrano Arturo Luna-Ramírez
Zdroj: PeerJ Computer Science, Vol 8, p e1162 (2022)
Informácie o vydavateľovi: PeerJ Inc., 2022.
Rok vydania: 2022
Zbierka: LCC:Electronic computers. Computer science
Predmety: Modularization, Multi-agent systems, Agents and artifacts, BDI agents, Agent-oriented programming, Namespaces, Electronic computers. Computer science, QA75.5-76.95
Popis: This article proposes an extension for the Agents and Artifacts meta-model to enable modularization. We adopt the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model of agency to represent independent and reusable units of code by means of modules. The key idea behind our proposal is to take advantage of the syntactic notion of namespace, i.e., a unique symbol identifier to organize a set of programming elements. On this basis, agents can decide in BDI terms which beliefs, goals, events, percepts and actions will be independently handled by a particular module. The practical feasibility of this approach is demonstrated by developing an auction scenario, where source code enhances scores of coupling, cohesion and complexity metrics, when compared against a non-modular version of the scenario. Our solution allows to address the name-collision issue, provides a use interface for modules that follows the information hiding principle, and promotes software engineering principles related to modularization such as reusability, extensibility and maintainability. Differently from others, our solution allows to encapsulate environment components into modules as it remains independent from a particular BDI agent-oriented programming language.
Druh dokumentu: article
Popis súboru: electronic resource
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 2376-5992
Relation: https://peerj.com/articles/cs-1162.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/cs-1162/; https://doaj.org/toc/2376-5992
DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1162
Prístupová URL adresa: https://doaj.org/article/ef9b11d41f144071b581483ccd45fa20
Prístupové číslo: edsdoj.f9b11d41f144071b581483ccd45fa20
Databáza: Directory of Open Access Journals
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Abstrakt:This article proposes an extension for the Agents and Artifacts meta-model to enable modularization. We adopt the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model of agency to represent independent and reusable units of code by means of modules. The key idea behind our proposal is to take advantage of the syntactic notion of namespace, i.e., a unique symbol identifier to organize a set of programming elements. On this basis, agents can decide in BDI terms which beliefs, goals, events, percepts and actions will be independently handled by a particular module. The practical feasibility of this approach is demonstrated by developing an auction scenario, where source code enhances scores of coupling, cohesion and complexity metrics, when compared against a non-modular version of the scenario. Our solution allows to address the name-collision issue, provides a use interface for modules that follows the information hiding principle, and promotes software engineering principles related to modularization such as reusability, extensibility and maintainability. Differently from others, our solution allows to encapsulate environment components into modules as it remains independent from a particular BDI agent-oriented programming language.
ISSN:23765992
DOI:10.7717/peerj-cs.1162