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This paper attempts to provide an architectural foundation to multiagent societies through a systematic application of the notion of software connector. It shows that multiagent societies can be explained as a Component & Connector architectural style, made up of high-level connectors defined in terms of common normative, communicative and organizational abstractions. This is expected to yield a better alignment of agent technology with mainstream software engineering practice and conventional architectural styles. Moreover, we show that connectors are a powerful metaphor for the design of organizational and communicative abstractions. Last, the paper challenges a common architectural assumption, namely the application-independence of software connectors.
Research sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, project TIN2009-14562-C05-05.
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Serrano, J.M., Saugar, S. (2011). An Architectural Perspective on Multiagent Societies. In: Weyns, D., Gleizes, MP. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XI. AOSE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6788. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22636-6_10
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