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Agent Technologies for Plug-in System Architecture Design
Lawrence Cabac
, Michael Duvigneau, Daniel Moldt, and Heiko Rölke.
Agent technologies for plug-in system architecture design.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-oriented Software
Engineering (AOSE), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2005.
[pdf]
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 problems that are inherent to extensible systems and the benefits that the multi-agent view can provide to solve these problems. 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 multiformalism Petri net 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 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.[pdf]
BibTeX entry
@InProceedings{Cabac+05d,
author = {Cabac, Lawrence and Duvigneau, Michael and Moldt, Daniel and R{\"o}lke, Heiko},
title = {Agent Technologies for Plug-in System Architecture Design},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-oriented Software Engineering (AOSE)},
year = 2005,
address = {Utrecht, Netherlands},
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
problems that are inherent to extensible systems and
the benefits that the multi-agent view can provide
to solve these problems. 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
multiformalism Petri net 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
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 (revision: submitted-aose05)}
}
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