Abstract
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 product from the product line. Each “product” may be described as the core architecture with some agent-based additions. The result is a multiagent system software product line. We describe an approach to such a software product line-based approach using the MaCMAS agent-oriented methodology. The approach scales to enterprise architectures as a multiagent system is an appropriate means of representing a changing enterprise architecture and the interaction between components in it. In addition, we reduce the gap between the enterprise architecture and the software architecture. Keywords: Multiagent systems product lines; Enterprise architecture evolution; Swarm-based systems
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 71-86 |
Journal | Science of Computer Programming |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - Apr 2007 |