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Multi-agent Concepts as Basis for Dynamic Plug-in Software Architectures
Lawrence Cabac
, Michael Duvigneau, Daniel Moldt, and Heiko Rölke.
Multi-agent concepts as basis for dynamic plug-in software
architectures.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2005), pages 1157-1158, 2005.
In this work we present the basic concepts for a dynamic plug-in-based software architecture using concepts from the Petri net-based MAS framework Mulan. By transferring the concepts of agent-orientation to a plug-in-based architecture we are able to design our application and the plug-in-based system on an abstract level. Moreover, general problems that evolve from a highly dynamic and configurable architecture have been solved by basing the conceptual design on multi-agent principles. In this paper we discuss the general properties of extensible systems and the benefits that can be achieved when applying the multi-agent view to their architecture.
In addition to the conceptual modeling of such architectures, we provide a practical example where the concept has been successfully applied in the development of the latest release of Renew (Version 2 of the multi-formalism Petri net integrated development environment (IDE)). The overall monolithic architecture has been exchanged with a system that is divided into a plug-in management system and plug-ins that provide (user) functionality. Through the introduction of the multi-agent concepts, the new architecture is now - at runtime - dynamically extensible by registering plug-ins with the management system. The introduced concepts are applicable for any kind of architecture but most suitable for applications with dynamic structure.
BibTeX
@InProceedings{Cabac+05c,
author = {Cabac, Lawrence and Duvigneau, Michael and Moldt, Daniel and R{\"o}lke, Heiko},
title = {Multi-agent Concepts as Basis for Dynamic Plug-in Software Architectures},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2005)},
year = 2005,
pages = {1157--1158},
abstract = {In this work we present the basic concepts for a dynamic
plug-in-based software architecture using concepts from
the Petri net-based MAS framework Mulan. By transferring
the concepts of agent-orientation to a plug-in-based
architecture we are able to design our application and
the plug-in-based system on an abstract level. Moreover,
general problems that evolve from a highly dynamic and
configurable architecture have been solved by basing the
conceptual design on multi-agent principles. In this
paper we discuss the general properties of extensible
systems and the benefits that can be achieved when
applying the multi-agent view to their architecture.
\par
In addition to the conceptual modeling of such
architectures, we provide a practical example where the
concept has been successfully applied in the development
of the latest release of Renew (Version 2 of the
multi-formalism Petri net integrated development
environment (IDE)). The overall monolithic architecture
has been exchanged with a system that is divided into a
plug-in management system and plug-ins that provide
(user) functionality. Through the introduction of the
multi-agent concepts, the new architecture is now - at
runtime - dynamically extensible by registering plug-ins
with the management system.
The introduced concepts are applicable for any kind of
architecture but most suitable for applications with
dynamic structure.},
annotate = {Filename: masplugin-short, posterpresentation}
}
