ELDAMeth: An agent-oriented methodology for simulation-based prototyping of distributed agent systems

In application domains, such as distributed information retrieval, content management and distribution, e-Commerce, the agent-based computing paradigm has been demonstrated to be effective for the analysis, design and implementation of distributed software systems. In particular, several agent-orien...

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Veröffentlicht in:Information and software technology Jg. 54; H. 6; S. 608 - 624
Hauptverfasser: Fortino, Giancarlo, Russo, Wilma
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.06.2012
Elsevier Science Ltd
Schlagworte:
Agent oriented software engineering
CASE tools
Computer programs
Computer simulation
Design engineering
Distributed processing
Information retrieval
Mathematical models
Methodology
Mobile agents
Multi-coordination
Programming
Prototypes
Simulation
Software
Software engineering
Statecharts
Studies
Systems design
Agent oriented software engineering
CASE tools
Multi-coordination
Simulation
Mobile agents
Statecharts
ISSN:0950-5849, 1873-6025
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Zusammenfassung:In application domains, such as distributed information retrieval, content management and distribution, e-Commerce, the agent-based computing paradigm has been demonstrated to be effective for the analysis, design and implementation of distributed software systems. In particular, several agent-oriented methodologies, incorporating suitable agent models, frameworks and tools, have been to date defined to support the development lifecycle of distributed agent systems (DAS). However, few of them provide effective validation methods to analyze design objects at different degrees of refinement before their actual implementation and deployment. In this paper, ELDAMeth, a simulation-based methodology for DAS, which enables rapid prototyping based on visual programming, validation, and automatic code generation for JADE-based DAS, is presented. ELDAMeth can be used both stand-alone for the modeling and evaluation of DAS and coupled with other agent-oriented methodologies for enhancing them with simulation-based validation. In particular, the proposed methodology, which is based on the ELDA (Event-driven Lightweight Distilled StateCharts-based Agents) agent model, provides key programming abstractions (event-driven computation, multi-coordination, and coarse-grained strong mobility) very suitable for highly dynamic distributed computing and is supported by a CASE tool-driven iterative process seamlessly covering the detailed design, simulation, and implementation phases of DAS. A simple yet effective case study in the distributed information retrieval domain is used to illustrate the proposed methodology.
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ISSN:0950-5849
1873-6025
DOI:10.1016/j.infsof.2011.08.006