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Multi-agent System Product Lines (MAS-PL) are the integration of two promising technologies: Multi-agent Systems (MASs), which provides a powerful abstraction to model features with autonomous and pro-active behavior, and SoftwareProductLines (SPL), whose aim is to reduce both time-to-market and costs in the development of system families by the exploitation of commonalities among family members. This paper presents a domain engineering process for developing MAS-PL. It defines activities and work products, whose purposes include allowing agent variability and providing agent features traceability, both not addressed by current SPL and MAS approaches.
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Nunes, I., de Lucena, C.J.P., Kulesza, U., Nunes, C. (2011). On the Development of Multi-agent Systems Product Lines: A Domain Engineering Process. In: Gleizes, MP., Gomez-Sanz, J.J. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering X. AOSE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19208-1_9
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