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The need for XP-like agile approaches that provide evolutionary development in a flexible way has been widely acknowledged in the AOSE area. Such approaches improve acceptability of agent-technology by industry. Evolutionary development of multi agent systems-MASs can only be applied successfully, if designs of the MASs being developed are improved throughout the development process. In this paper, we introduce a refactoring approach that can be used during evolutionary MAS development. The proposed refactoring approach makes it possible to develop MASs in an evolutionary way by managing the changes between the iterations of the evolutionary development process. Also, a case study that shows application of a refactoring technique during the evolutionary MAS development is introduced in the fifth section.
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Tiryaki, A.M., Ekinci, E.E., Dikenelli, O. (2008). Refactoring in Multi Agent System Development. In: Bergmann, R., Lindemann, G., Kirn, S., Pěchouček, M. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87805-6_17
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