Extending the MaSE Methodology for the Development of Embedded Real-Time Systems

Embedded real-time systems play an important role in various application areas like plant automation, product automation or car electronics. In recent years a considerable growth in the functionality has been observed. At the same time, expectations on systems’ flexibility at runtime are growing steadily. The paradigm of agentoriented software engineering is a well suited approach for the development of decentralised, complex software systems with high flexibility. A number of software engineering methodologies have been introduced for developing agent oriented systems. However, none of the existing methodologies is intended for the development of embedded real-time systems. This work presents an extension to the Multi-agent Systems Engineering (MaSE) methodology that tackles domain-specific weaknesses and defines a systematic procedure for the development of agent-oriented embedded real-time systems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: LADS
• Authors: Iman Badr, Hisham Mubarak, Peter Göhner
• Keywords: Complex Software Systems, Embedded Real-time Systems, LADS 2007, Natural Language Processing, Software Engineering