UMA METODOLOGIA E UMA FERRAMENTA PARA O REUSO GERATIVO NA ENGENHARIA DE DOMÍNIO MULTIAGENTE

Abstract

The generative approach is one of the most productive ways to promote automatic reuse in software product lines, associated with Domain Engineering techniques and methodologies. The multi-agent paradigm aims to provide solutions to approach the growing complexity of software that should operate in non-predictable environments or exposed to fast changes. To obtain the benefits of automatic reuse in multi-agent system families, we need appropriate methods for the multi-agent paradigm, main study object of Multi-agent Domain Engineering. This work proposes GENMADEM, an ontology-based methodology for generative reuse in Multi-agent Domain Engineering whose main products are ontology-based domain models, Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and application generators. It also contributes with ONTOGENMADEM, an ontology composed by an ontology and a plug-in to the ontology editor Protégé that supports the application of GENMADEM, aiding the analysis, design and implementation of DSLs. A case study that consists of the development of a DSL and a generator design for the domain of information filtering and retrieval is also presented with the goal of evaluation of the methodology.