Binding agent roles to environments: the R4R approach

Agents represent a great technology that allows developers to build complex applications. Agents´ capabilities increase as much as they can cooperate and coordinate together in multi agent system. Developers can exploit role- based approaches to deal with coordination and cooperation issues. In this paper a new approach to the role development and deployment is presented: thanks to adoption of a clear model and of aspect oriented programming, the role development and deployment is simplified guaranteeing the respect of any environment specific rule.