Authors:
Tahar Gherbi
1
;
Isabelle Borne
1
and
Djamel Meslati
2
Affiliations:
1
South Brittany University, France
;
2
University of Annaba, Algeria
Keyword(s):
Mobile Agent, MAS, MaSE, M-GAIA, AALAADIN, PIM, MDE.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agile Methodologies
;
Cross-Feeding between Data and Software Engineering
;
Meta Programming Systems and Meta-Modeling
;
Model-Driven Engineering
;
Service-Oriented Software Engineering and Management
;
Software and Systems Development Methodologies
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Engineering Methods and Techniques
;
Software Project Management
Abstract:
There is a need for agent oriented software engineering methodologies that support the conceptual modeling of mobile-agents systems. For this reason, we have presented in a previous work, our meta-model to design multi-agents systems including mobile agents and we have discussed it versus some formalisms extending UML for mobile-agents modeling. The proposed meta-model serves as a platform independent meta-model in our model-driven engineering approach under elaboration as a methodology for the development of multi-agents systems including mobile-agents. This paper summarizes the different approaches for mobile-agent modeling and situates our meta-model particularly versus three works supporting mobility by extending a multi-agents systems methodology (MaSE, GAIA, and AALAADIN). It aims to justify the choices that have guided our meta-model construction.