A generic agent-oriented model used fordesigning a collaborative information system

Abstract

Faced with new environmental constraints, firms decide to collaborate in collective entities and adopt new patterns of behavior. So, this firms' collaboration becomes an unavoidable approach. This collaboration can be represented by many agents collaboration within a multi agent system. Indeed, agent technology is a software paradigm that permits to implement large and complex distributed applications [1]. In order to assist analyzing, conception and development or implementation phases of multi-agent systems, we've tried to present a practical application of a generic and scalable method of a MAS with a component-oriented architecture and agent-based approach that allows MDA to generate source code from a given model. We have designed a generic class diagram as a class meta-model of different agents of a MAS. Then we have applied it on a collaborative platform based on MAS supply chain which ensures cooperation and information logging and sharing between partners in real time. We have finally generated the model source code developed using an open source tool called AndroMDA. This agent-based and evolutive approach enhances the modularity and genericity developments and promotes their reusability in future developments.