Multi agent systems in logistics: a literature and state-of-the-art review

N Lang, H Moonen, J Srour, R Zuidwijk - ERIM report series research in …, 2008 - repub.eur.nl
Based on a literature survey, we aim to answer our main question:“How should we plan and
execute logistics in supply chains that aim to meet today's requirements, and how can we …

Automating the product derivation process of multi-agent systems product lines

E Cirilo, I Nunes, U Kulesza, C Lucena - Journal of Systems and Software, 2012 - Elsevier
Agent-oriented software engineering and software product lines are two promising software
engineering techniques. Recent research work has been exploring their integration, namely …

Designing and managing evolving systems using a MAS product line approach

J Peña, MG Hinchey, M Resinas, R Sterritt… - Science of Computer …, 2007 - Elsevier
We view an evolutionary system as being a software product line. The core architecture is
the unchanging part of the system, and each version of the system may be viewed as a …

Building the core architecture of a NASA multiagent system product line

J Pena, MG Hinchey, A Ruiz-Cortés… - International Workshop on …, 2006 - Springer
Abstract The field of Software Product Lines (SPL) emphasizes building a family of software
products from which concrete products can be derived rapidly. This helps to reduce time-to …

Building the core architecture of a multiagent system product line: With an example from a future nasa mission

J Pena, MG Hinchey, A Ruiz-Cortés - Workshop on Agent-Oriented …, 2006 - ntrs.nasa.gov
The field of Software Product Lines (SPL) emphasizes building a core architecture for a
family of software products from which concrete products can be derived rapidly. This helps …

Gaia-PL: A product line engineering approach for efficiently designing multiagent systems

J Dehlinger, RR Lutz - ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) has provided powerful and natural, high-level
abstractions in which software developers can understand, model and develop complex …

Modeling NASA swarm-based systems: using agent-oriented software engineering and formal methods

J Peña, CA Rouff, M Hinchey, A Ruiz-Cortés - Software & Systems …, 2011 - Springer
The need to collect new data and perform new science is causing the complexity of NASA
missions to continually increase. This complexity needs to be controlled via new …

Developing and evolving a multi-agent system product line: An exploratory study

I Nunes, C Nunes, U Kulesza, C Lucena - Agent-Oriented Software …, 2009 - Springer
Abstract Software Product Line (SPL) approaches motivate the development and
implementation of a flexible and adaptable architecture to enable software reuse in …

Using formal methods and agent-oriented software engineering for modeling NASA swarm-based systems

CA Rouff, MG Hinchey, J Pena… - 2007 IEEE Swarm …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NASA is conducting research on advanced technologies for future exploration using
intelligent swarms of robotic vehicles. One of these missions is the Autonomous Nano …

Developing multi-agent system product lines: from requirements to code

I Nunes, CJP De Lucena, D Cowan… - … Journal of Agent …, 2011 - inderscienceonline.com
Many modern software systems have autonomous, open, context-aware and highly-
interactive properties. The agent abstraction with its autonomous and pro-active …