An Architecture-Centric Approach for Engineering Multiagent Systems

Danny Weyns

ISBN 10: 3639515005 / ISBN 13: 9783639515008

Published by Scholars' Press Jun 2013, 2013

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Neuware -Developing and managing today¿s distributed applications is hard. Three important reasons for the increasing complexity are: (1) stakeholders of systems have various, often conflicting quality requirements; (2) the systems are subject to highly dynamic and changing operating conditions; (3) activity in the systems is inherently localized, global control is hard to achieve or even impossible. In this dissertation, we present an approach for developing such complex systems. Key aspects of the approach are architecture-centric software development, self-management, and decentralized control. Architecture-centric software development compels the stakeholders of a system to deal explicitly with quality goals and tradeoffs. Self-management enables a software system to adapt autonomously with changing operating circumstances. Decentralized control exploits collaboration between subsystems, which is essential to cope with the inherent locality of activity. We present a reference architecture for a family of multiagent systems that architects can use when applying the approach, and we demonstrate how we have successfully applied the approach to an industrial AGV transportation system.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 328 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Architecture-Centric Approach for Engineering Multiagent Systems
• Publisher: Scholars' Press Jun 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639515005
• ISBN 13: 9783639515008
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 20D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 506 grams

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Synopsis

Developing and managing today’s distributed applications is hard. Three important reasons for the increasing complexity are: (1) stakeholders of systems have various, often conflicting quality requirements; (2) the systems are subject to highly dynamic and changing operating conditions; (3) activity in the systems is inherently localized, global control is hard to achieve or even impossible. In this dissertation, we present an approach for developing such complex systems. Key aspects of the approach are architecture-centric software development, self-management, and decentralized control. Architecture-centric software development compels the stakeholders of a system to deal explicitly with quality goals and tradeoffs. Self-management enables a software system to adapt autonomously with changing operating circumstances. Decentralized control exploits collaboration between subsystems, which is essential to cope with the inherent locality of activity. We present a reference architecture for a family of multiagent systems that architects can use when applying the approach, and we demonstrate how we have successfully applied the approach to an industrial AGV transportation system.

About the Author

Danny Weyns is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Linnaeus University in Sweden. His main research interests are in software engineering of self-adaptive systems, formal modeling and verification, and empirical methods.