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Issue title: Development of service-based and agent-based computing systems
Guest editors: Michael N. Huhnsw, Ryszard Kowlczykx, Zakaria Maamary and Rainer Unlandz
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Küster, Tobiasa; * | Lützenberger, Marcoa | Heßler, Axela | Hirsch, Benjaminb
Affiliations: [a] DAI-Labor, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany | [b] ETISALAT BT Innovation Center (EBTIC), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | [w] Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA | [x] Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia | [y] Zayed University, Dubai, UAE | [z] University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Tel.: +49 030 314 74033; Fax: +49 030 314 74003; E-mail: tobias.kuester@dai-labor.de
Abstract: While today's agent oriented software engineering facilitates the development of complex, distributed systems, fundamental problems remain. One of the problems is that the developer sees only part of the system, or one side of the business, but not the whole context. The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is considered a remedy here, but while suitable for modelling some aspects of agenthood, there are others for which BPMN does not go very well. While well-suited for modelling behaviours and especially interactions at a high level of abstraction, BPMN is too cumbersome for modelling every detail of a process and too rigid for modelling dynamic behaviours. Therefore, BPMN has to be embedded into the agent engineering process such that its strengths can be exploited while avoiding its weaknesses. In this paper, BPMN is used mainly for modelling the agents' high-level behaviour and communication, leaving other aspects to established agent programming techniques. The approach is applied for the JIAC multi-agent framework, for which a respective mapping of concepts is given. Finally, the prospects of such an approach are discussed, especially regarding the usage of BPMN for modelling dynamic aspects in agent systems.
Keywords: Multi-agent systems, software engineering, business process modelling, BPMN, JIAC
DOI: 10.3233/MGS-2012-0182
Journal: Multiagent and Grid Systems , vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 105-124, 2012
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