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Agent-based technology is being used in an increasing variety of applications and domains. Despite the substantial research effort on methodologies for analyzing, designing and implementing multi-agent systems (MAS), maintenance and evolution of MAS software is nowadays challenging. This paper presents REAGENT, a reverse engineering technique for retrieving MAS design models from the source code of Jade based MAS implementations. REAGENT support tools have been experimentally evaluated by means of a case study with 19 benchmark programs from textbook. REAGENT has proved to be able to collect accurate and complete agent models in a linear time regarding the size of agent models, which facilitates its applicability to large, complex, industrial MAS.
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Pérez-Castillo, R., Pavón, J., Gómez-Sanz, J.J., Piattini, M. (2013). REAGENT: Reverse Engineering of Multi-Agent Systems. In: Demazeau, Y., Ishida, T., Corchado, J.M., Bajo, J. (eds) Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7879. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38073-0_20
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