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ADELFE: A Methodology for Adaptive Multi-agent Systems Engineering

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World III (ESAW 2002)

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Adaptive software is used in situations where either the environment is unpredictable or the system is open. This paper presents a methodology named ADELFE, which is led by the Rational Unified Process (RUP) but is devoted to software engineering of adaptive multi- agent systems. ADELFE guarantees that the software is developed according to the AMAS theory1. We focus this presentation on the additions of ADELFE regarding the three first core workflows of the RUP. Therefore, during the requirements phase, the environment of the studied system must be defined and characterized. Then, in the analysis phase, the engineer is guided to decide to use adaptive multi-agent technology and to identify the agents through the system and the environment models. Finally, the design workflow of ADELFE must provide the cooperative agent’s model and helps the developer to define the local agents. behavior. We illustrate the methodology by applying it to a case study: a timetable design.

The AMAS theory is developed and applied for the last 8 years at the Research Institute in Computer Science in Toulouse (IRIT). See http://www.irit.fr/SMAC

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  1. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse, Cedex 4, France

    Carole Bernon & Gauthier Picard

  2. Artal Technologies, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520, Ramonville Saint-Agne, France

    Marie-Pierre Gleizes & Sylvain Peyruqueou

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  1. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Agents and New Media Group, Schottengasse 3, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  2. AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme, Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Informatik, Takustr. 9, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Robert Tolksdorf

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Allegri 13, 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

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Bernon, C., Gleizes, MP., Peyruqueou, S., Picard, G. (2003). ADELFE: A Methodology for Adaptive Multi-agent Systems Engineering. In: Petta, P., Tolksdorf, R., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World III. ESAW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2577. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39173-8_12

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