ADELFE Design, AMAS-ML in Action

Abstract

The complexity of engineers tasks leads us to provide means to bring the Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems (AMAS) design to a higher stage of automation and confidence thanks to Model Driven Development (MDD). This paper focuses on a practical example and illustrates the modifications that have been done to the ADELFE methodology. In the Design phase, we propose to use a Domain Specific Modeling Language (DSML) for the specification of cooperative agents. We also, add a Model Diven Implementation phase using model transformation, DSMLs and code generation. These phases carry out a model centric process to produce and partially generate the system code. We present the use of our MD process applied to a simple, but very illustrative example: the foraging ants simulation.