WP 6: Tool Suite

WP6: Tool Suite CSICURJUPVTotal WP6: Tool suite (Leader: V.Botti – UPV) Task 6.1: Design of a MAS methodology based on organizational concepts (Leader: C. Iglesias) Task 6.2: MAS Development Environment (Leader: V.Julián)

WP8: Tool Suite : Goal –Methodology that integrates software engineering principles for the correct management of complex and large-scale systems; and provides specific support to new requirements. –Development environment for open MAS. From an organisational perspective (WP3)

Carlos A. Iglesias Task 6.1 Design of a MAS Methodology based on Organisational Concepts

MAS Methodology: Motivation Agents are SW, so it is need engineering' Why another new MAS methodology? –Because most of them are “old” in a SW engineering sense Lack of a pragmatic approach to agent engineering Need to include current trends, such as XP, DDD, MDA, Testing, Mashups,... Need to research specifically on engineering with TA and social/organisational aspects Need to research on how, when and why TA, can be integrated in current SW development

MAS Methodology: Objectives I.Define a methodology for “open MAS” Agents, TA, model-based engineering graphical/textual notations, worksheets, documents structure Life-cycle model, process model, guidelines, elicitation techniques IDE, T6.2 Case studies, application projects

MAS Methodology: Activities Process development (Methods)‏ –D Process development report (M18)‏ Formalisation process / guidelines Meta-models (World View + Theory)‏ –Early draft should be available (M9)‏ Review internal/external proposals (M2)‏ Define context / purpose of the methodology (M3)‏ Define use cases (M5)‏ Define models / theory (M9)‏ –D6.1.2 Report on meta-models (M24)‏ Iterative refinement / formalisation

Vicente Julian GTI-IA. UPV. Task 6.2. MAS Development Environment

Task 6.2. MAS Development Environment WP6: Tool suite (Leader: V.Botti – UPV) Task 6.1: Design of a MAS methodology based on organizational concepts (Leader: C. Iglesias) Task 6.2: MAS Development Environment (Leader: V.Julián)

Task 6.2. MAS Development Environment Motivation –Lack of development tools and environments that support the development of open MAS –Necessity of a sw tool which integrates all the project work proposals

Task 6.2. MAS Development Environment Description –The goal of this task is to build an application development environment (ADE) that allows users to develop and execute open MAS populated with agents with agreement capabilities –There exists some previous works (EIDE, MAST, TOAST and RICAJ) which can facilitate the kick-off

Task 6.2. MAS Development Environment Activities –Study of available development tools –Definition of rules and mechanisms for translating models –Tool Development and Integration

Task 6.2. Schedule M12 Definition of rules and mechanisms for translating models M24 M36 M48M60 Tool Development and Integration Study of available development tools M0

Task 6.2. MAS Development Environment Milestones –D6.2.1 Survey on development tools for MAS. Month 6 –D6.2.2 Rules and mechanisms for translating models. Month 24 –D6.2.3 Tool and Integrated Application development environment. Month 24, 40, 48, 60

Task 6.2. MAS Development Environment Open Issues/Challenges –Started Work Related work study. First version available –In this year Related work ended. Analysis and elicitation of requirements for our proposal. Temptative: to start the transformation of the proposed models to obtain a basic non-completely functional prototype.

WP 6: Tool Suite