PADRÕES ARQUITETURAIS PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DE APLICAÇÕES MULTIAGENTE

• Ano de defesa: 2003
• Autor(a) principal: Silva Junior, Geovane Bezerra da
• Orientador(a): GIRARDI, Rosario
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Maranhão
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ENGENHARIA DE ELETRICIDADE/CCET
• Departamento: Engenharia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Padrões de Software; Reutilização de Software; Agentes de Software; Arquiteturas de Software; KQML e AUML
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Software Patterns; Software Reuse; Multi-agent Systems; Software Architectures; KQML; AUML; Software Design
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO::SISTEMAS DE COMPUTACAO::ARQUITETURA DE SISTEMAS DE COMPUTACAO
• Link de acesso: http://tedebc.ufma.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/323

This work proposes a collection of architectural patterns for the development of multi-agent systems. Main architectural concerns like communication, cooperation and coordination mechanisms between the agents of the society are particularly analyzed in each described pattern. The generation of new patterns through the extension or composition of the proposed ones is also approached. The methodology for pattern extraction is based on the study of frequently used architectures of multi-agent systems, like blackboard and federative architectures, and on mechanisms of cooperation and coordination usually identified in such architectures, like master-slave, meeting and negotiator mechanisms, as well. Pattern description is based on AUML and KQML. Main AUML diagrams, like agent packages, agent diagrams and agent interaction diagrams are used to represent the structure and behavior of the society. In those diagrams, agent interactions are represented as KQML performatives. Proposed patterns are validated through the construction of three case studies related to the development of multi-agent systems for information retrieval and filtering. In these case studies, the architectures RETSINA, AMALTHAEA and ABARFI are analyzed and the reuse or potential application of proposed patterns is identified.