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Designing Multi-Agent Systems from Ontology Models

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2018)

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This chapter presents our proposal for the development of multi-agent systems designed as ontology models supporting code generation and reasoning. The foundation of such work takes into consideration ontologies for agent-oriented software engineering aligned with the JaCaMo framework. These techniques are implemented in a tool that supports multi-agent systems core code generation for JaCaMo. The underlying ontology also allows for reasoning about the multi-agent systems models under development. Such comprehensive approach, therefore, spans through the modelling, programming, and verification of agent-oriented software.

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    The model is at a higher abstraction level than the code, so sometimes only a structure or code skeleton can be created and programmers have to complete it in order to obtain a fully executable and running system.

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    OntoMAS ontology: http://www.inf.pucrs.br/linatural/wordpress/index.php/recursos-e-ferramentas/ontomas/.

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    Onto2JaCaMo plug-in: http://www.inf.pucrs.br/linatural/wordpress/index.php/recursos-e-ferramentas/onto2jacamo/.

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This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001.

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Freitas, A., Bordini, R.H., Vieira, R. (2019). Designing Multi-Agent Systems from Ontology Models. In: Weyns, D., Mascardi, V., Ricci, A. (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11375. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25693-7_5

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