TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-agent system product lines
T2 - Challenges and benefits
AU - Pẽa, Joaquin
AU - Hinchey, Michael G.
AU - Ruiz-Cortés, Antonio
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
N2 - The feasibility and benefits of multi-agent systems product lines (MAS-PL) are discussed. The SPL emphasizes the analysis of the scope of the SPL and the analysis of common and variable features across the SPL, which is not carried out by the agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE). The main benefit of combining both AOSE and SPL is that SPL will gain increased acceptance in the industrial world. MAS-PL, incorporating benefits from both SPL and AOSE, will help in industrial exploitation of the agent technology, saving both effort and cost. A symbiosis between both AOSE and SPL arises when AOSE also provides benefits to SPL, mainly through encouraging and improving research on SPL of complex distributed systems. MAS-PL represents a great, worthwhile, challenge that will attract the interest of many practitioners and researchers.
AB - The feasibility and benefits of multi-agent systems product lines (MAS-PL) are discussed. The SPL emphasizes the analysis of the scope of the SPL and the analysis of common and variable features across the SPL, which is not carried out by the agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE). The main benefit of combining both AOSE and SPL is that SPL will gain increased acceptance in the industrial world. MAS-PL, incorporating benefits from both SPL and AOSE, will help in industrial exploitation of the agent technology, saving both effort and cost. A symbiosis between both AOSE and SPL arises when AOSE also provides benefits to SPL, mainly through encouraging and improving research on SPL of complex distributed systems. MAS-PL represents a great, worthwhile, challenge that will attract the interest of many practitioners and researchers.
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U2 - 10.1145/1183236.1183272
DO - 10.1145/1183236.1183272
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33751576759
SN - 0001-0782
VL - 49
JO - Communications of the ACM
JF - Communications of the ACM
IS - 12
M1 - 1183272
ER -