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The diversity of Multi-agent System(MAS) methodologies and modeling languages(MLs) is increasing more and more. Although most of the MAS concepts are shared among the MAS MLs, these MAS concepts use different notations and have semantic particularities for each MAS ML. This paper presents a meta-modelling solution and tool support for the coexistence of the MAS ML diversity. This solution is based on a inter-ML metamodel, which provides a mechanism for the MAS specification interchange amongst different MAS modeling languages. This metamodel is based on the powertype pattern; in which, the clabjects represent subtypes and are instantiated at the model. The MAS designer can change the clabjects properties to indicate the particularities of each concept, depending on the ML the MAS designer is used to.
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García-Magariño, I. (2009). Towards the Coexistence of Different Multi-Agent System Modeling Languages with a Powertype-Based Metamodel. In: Corchado, J.M., Rodríguez, S., Llinas, J., Molina, J.M. (eds) International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2008 (DCAI 2008). Advances in Soft Computing, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85863-8_23
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