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Gaia Agents Implementation through Models Transformation

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Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2009)

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Abstract

Gaia is a well-known Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodology. The emerging Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) paradigm encourages software modelers to automate the transition of one type of software model to another and eventually the code generation process. Towards this end we define a process for transforming the Gaia roles model liveness formulas to statecharts. This achievement on one hand allows the modeler to work on detailed agent design and permits, on the other hand, to automatically generate an agent’s code using any one of the statecharts-based tools in the market.

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  1. Dept of Sciences, Technical University of Crete, University Campus, 73100, Chania, Greece

    Nikolaos Spanoudakis

  2. Laboratory of Informatics Paris Descartes (LIPADE), Paris Descartes University, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75270, Paris Cedex 06, France

    Nikolaos Spanoudakis & Pavlos Moraitis

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, South Korea

    Jung-Jin Yang

  2. Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Department of Informatics, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan

    Makoto Yokoo

  3. School of Techno-Business Administration, Dept. of Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, 466-8555, Nagoya, Japan

    Takayuki Ito

  4. School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, 100871, Beijing, China

    Zhi Jin

  5. Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Paul Scerri

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Spanoudakis, N., Moraitis, P. (2009). Gaia Agents Implementation through Models Transformation. In: Yang, JJ., Yokoo, M., Ito, T., Jin, Z., Scerri, P. (eds) Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5925. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11161-7_9

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