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Abstract | ||
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Heterogeneous agents that cooperate to accomplish collective tasks constitute Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS). Engineering a CAS not only involves the definition of the individual agents, but also their roles in achieving a collective task and adaptation strategies to counteract to environmental changes. Current solutions for specifying CAS typically tackle the problem at a low level of abstraction (e.g., writing XML files), making this task time-consuming and error-prone. Moreover, such a low level of abstraction hinders the understandability of the specification. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) proposes to reduce the complexity of development by adopting models as first class artifacts in the process. In this respect, this work proposes a MDE approach to enhance CAS specification. In particular, we introduce a domain-specific language (DSL) made-up of three main views: one devoted to adaptive systems design; one addressing ensembles definition; and one tackling the collective adaptation. These three separate aspects are woven seamlessly by the DSL to constitute a complete CAS design. While the different views allow us to exploit separation-of-concerns to reduce complexity and focus on a specific aspect of the system, facing CAS specification at a higher-level of abstraction permits to use concepts closer to the experts of the involved domains. Moreover, the precise definition of modeling concepts through corresponding meta-models enables correctness-by-construction of the system specification. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1109/FAS-W.2017.115 | 2017 IEEE 2nd International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W) |
Keywords | DocType | ISBN |
Collective Adaptive Systems Engineering,Domain Specific Language,Model Driven Engineering | Conference | 978-1-5090-6559-2 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 13 |
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3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Antonio Bucchiarone | 1 | 474 | 44.96 |
| Antonio Cicchetti | 2 | 664 | 49.75 |
| Martina de Sanctis | 3 | 40 | 6.94 |