Paper Info
Title
On the modularity assessment of aspect-oriented multiagent architectures: a quantitative study
Abstract
A number of concerns in Multiagent Systems (MAS) have a broadly-scoped impact on the system architectural decomposition, which in turn hinder the design of modular MAS architectures. Typical examples of crosscutting concerns in MAS architectures include learning, mobility, coordination, and autonomy. Nowadays there are some architectural proposals that envisage an emerging aspect-oriented architectural pattern as a potential solution to address modularity shortcomings of conventional architectural patterns for MAS designs. However, little effort has been dedicated to effectively assess when and which of these emerging and traditional architectural solutions promote in fact superior modularity in the presence of crosscutting MAS concerns. This paper presents a quantitative comparison between aspect-oriented and conventional MAS architectures. Our analysis evaluates how the architectures under comparison support the promotion of enhanced modularity in the presence of architectural crosscutting concerns in MAS design. Our evaluation used two medium-sized MAS applications and was centred on fundamental modularity attributes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1504/IJAOSE.2008.016799
IJAOSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
mas design,conventional mas architecture,medium-sized mas application,aspect-oriented architectural pattern,modularity assessment,aspect-oriented multiagent architecture,quantitative study,architectural proposal,modular mas architecture,mas architecture,architectural crosscutting concern,conventional architectural pattern,crosscutting mas concern,aspect oriented,modularity,software metrics,multi agent systems
Agent based systems,Aspect-oriented programming,Computer science,Multi-agent system,Modular design,Software metric,Architectural pattern,Modularity,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
2
1
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
26
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Claudio Sant'Anna142117.56
Cidiane Lobato2282.37
Uira Kulesza32199.07
Alessandro Garcia42231143.70
Christina Chavez525216.34
Carlos Lucena658941.51