Título: | AN ASPECT-ORIENTED FRAMEWORK FOR SOFTWARE AGENTS MOBILITY | |||||||
Autor: |
CIDIANE ARACATY LOBATO |
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Colaborador(es): |
CARLOS JOSE PEREIRA DE LUCENA - Orientador ALESSANDRO FABRICIO GARCIA - Coorientador |
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Catalogação: | 29/MAR/2006 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | |||||
Notas: |
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=8022&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=8022&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.8022 | |||||||
Resumo: | ||||||||
Software engineers of multi-agent systems (MASs) are
concerned with
the design and implementation of the mobility issues in
addition to the agents`
basic functionalities and other agent-related concerns. As
the agents`
complexity increases, mobility issues cannot be
modularized based only on
object-oriented (OO) abstractions and mechanisms. Besides,
some programmers
frequently evidence the presence of mobility tangling and
scattering problems
on their systems. Despite these problems, MAS developers
have mostly relied
on application programming interfaces (APIs) OO from
mobility platforms and
on the use of the Java programming language. The result is
the production of
MASs that are difficult to understand, maintain, and
reuse. This work presents
three main contributions. Firstly, an analysis of existent
solutions for
modularization of mobility issues. Besides, the proposal
of the ArchM software
architecture and the AspectM framework, both based on
aspects, which support:
(i) improved modularization of the mobility issues, that
is, a clean separation
between the mobility-specific concerns and the other agent
concerns, (ii) a
seamless introduction of code mobility into stationary
agents, and (iii) a flexible
integration with multiple mobility platforms. The aspect-
oriented software
development (AOSD) is a new paradigm with abstractions and
composition
mechanisms that support an improvement of reuse and
maintainability of
systems. The benefits of the AspectM framework are
illustrated through two
case studies and through use of two mobility platforms.
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