Analysis and Design of a Multi-Agent System Using Gaia Methodology in an Airport Case of Use Articles uri icon

publication date

  • March 2010

start page

  • 9

end page

  • 17

issue

  • 45

volume

  • 14

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1137-3601

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1988-3064

abstract

  • Progress in software engineering has been made through the development of natural high-level abstractions with which to model and develop complex systems. The abstraction and modelling of agent technology play
    an important role in distributed systems. Multi-Agent System paradigm
    introduces a number of new abstractions when compared to more
    traditional systems. They may be used by software developers to more
    naturally understand, model and develop an important class of complex
    distributed systems. Accordingly new analysis and design methodologies
    are needed to effectively engineer such systems. In this paper, we
    propose the analysis and design of a multi-agent system for the
    provisioning of context-aware services in an ambient intelligence
    domain: an airport.