Agent Oriented Design Patterns: A Case Study

Capitalising and diffusing experience about multiagent systems (MAS) are two key mechanisms the classical approach of methods and tools can’t address. Our hypothesis is that, among available techniques that collect and formalise experience, design patterns, [4], are the most able technique allowing to express the agent concepts and to adapt itself to the various MAS developing problems. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of helping MAS analysis, design, and implementation through design patterns, we designed agent oriented patterns and we emphasised their application through the implementation of a simulation MAS, [8, 9].