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Embedded real-time systems play an important role in various application areas like plant automation, product automation or car electronics. In recent years, a considerable growth in the functionality has been observed. At the same time, expectations on systems’ flexibility at runtime are growing steadily. The agent-oriented software engineering approach is well suited for the development of decentralised, complex software systems with high flexibility. A number of software engineering methodologies have been introduced for developing agent-oriented systems. However, none of the existing methodologies is intended for the development of embedded real-time systems. This work presents concepts that extend the Multi-agent Systems Engineering (MaSE) methodology for the development of agent-oriented embedded real-time systems. The proposed concepts have been integrated in the traditional engineering process of MasE and evaluated by applying the extended process to the development of a flexible agent-oriented embedded system for the control of an elevator model.
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Badr, I., Mubarak, H., Göhner, P. (2008). Extending the MaSE Methodology for the Development of Embedded Real-Time Systems. In: Dastani, M., El Fallah Seghrouchni, A., Leite, J., Torroni, P. (eds) Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems. LADS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85058-8_7
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