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

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 syntac...

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Veröffentlicht in:PeerJ. Computer science Jg. 8; S. e1162
Hauptverfasser: Ortiz-Hernández, Gustavo, Guerra-Hernández, Alejandro, Hübner, Jomi F., Luna-Ramírez, Wulfrano Arturo
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States PeerJ. Ltd 01.12.2022
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Agent-oriented programming
Agents and artifacts
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
BDI agents
Case studies
Code reuse
Computer programming
Concrete
Maintainability
Methods
Modularization
Modules
Multi-agent systems
Namespaces
Principles
Programming Languages
Software agents
Software Engineering
Software reuse
Source code
Mexico
Modularization
CArtAgO
Namespaces
Agent-oriented programming
Agents and artifacts
Jason
BDI agents
Multi-agent systems
ISSN:2376-5992, 2376-5992
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Zusammenfassung: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.
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ISSN:2376-5992
2376-5992
DOI:10.7717/peerj-cs.1162