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ER 2005: Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling pp 141–150Cite as

DDEMAS: A Domain Design Technique for Multi-agent Domain Engineering

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Multi-agent Domain Engineering is a process for the construction of domain-specific agent-oriented reusable software artifacts, like domain models representing the requirements of a family of multi-agent systems, and frameworks, implementing an agent-oriented solution to those requirements. This work describes DDEMAS, an ontology-based technique for the architectural and detailed design of multi-agent frameworks providing a solution to the requirements of a family of multi-agent software systems specified in a domain model. DDEMAS is part of MADEM, a methodology for domain analysis and design of a family of multi-agent systems in a domain. Domain models and multi-agent frameworks are part of a knowledge base constructed through the instantiation of ONTOMADEM, an ontology that represents the knowledge of MADEM. Some examples from a case study on the application of DDEMAS on the construction of a multi-agent framework for the development of usage mining-based Web personalization systems are also described.

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    Rosario Girardi & Alisson Neres Lindoso

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  2. Information Systems Department, Brigham Young Univeristy, 84602, Provo, Utah, U.S.A.

    Stephen W. Liddle

  3. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

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  4. University College, Dublin, Ireland

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  8. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

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Girardi, R., Lindoso, A.N. (2005). DDEMAS: A Domain Design Technique for Multi-agent Domain Engineering. In: Akoka, J., et al. Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3770. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11568346_16

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