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The design of MAS organizations is a complex activity where a proper methodological approach may offer a significant advantage in enabling the conception of the best solution. Moreover, the aid provided by a supporting tool significantly contributes to make the approach technically sound and it is a fundamental ingredient of a feasible strategy to the development of large MASs. In this paper, we introduce a portion of methodological approach devoted to design MAS organizations and a preliminary version of a specific case tool, named MoT (Moise+ Tool), for supporting activities from design production to automatic code generation. MoT provides four kinds of diagrams based on a definite graphical notation for representing organizational elements. Our process is applied to a classical write paper simulator example. Results include portion of the automatically generated code according to Moise+ specifications.
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Cossentino, M., Lodato, C., Lopes, S., Ribino, P., Seidita, V., Chella, A. (2012). Towards a Design Process for Modeling MAS Organizations. In: Cossentino, M., Kaisers, M., Tuyls, K., Weiss, G. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems. EUMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7541. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34799-3_5
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