Publication
A Domain Specific Modeling Language for Multiagent Systems
Christian Hahn
In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagents Systems. International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2008), May 12-16, Estoril, Portugal, Pages 233-240, ACM, 2008.
Abstract
Software systems are becoming more and more complex with a large number of interacting partners often distributed over a network. A common dilemma faced by software engineers in building complex systems is the lack of clear requirements and domain knowledge needed to come up with a detailed design of the system. Agent technologies are a suitable programming paradigm to cope with the complexity of modern software systems. However, existing agent-based methodologies and tools are developed for experienced programmers and are not suitable for non-agent experts. This paper discusses a domain specific modeling language for multiagent systems that (i) provides a clear syntax and semantics to define agent-based systems in a graphical visualized manner and (ii) can be used to automatically derive code from its design through model transformations.