Taming heterogeneous agent architectures

argely on the ability of used architectural abstractions to support the separate handling of agent-specific concerns since an early state of design. The applied architectural styles must enable the modularization of each agent concern and their proper composition, so that the achieved segregation significantly limits the impact of a change and improves the chances for architecture reuse in other software projects. This separation of concerns needs to be guaranteed throughout the different development phases, especially from the architectural to the implementation phase. The architectural on will be lost if the implementation abstractions are not able to preserve it. In fact, the sole use of existing well-known agent platforms, such as JADE and JACK [12], 

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: CACM
• Authors: Alessandro Garcia, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena
• Keywords: Applied Architectural Styles, Architectural, Architectural Abstractions, CACM 2008