Model-Driven Engineering of Multi Agent Systems

Currently elaboration of powerful methodologies and development environments is one of the most important research challenges in the area of agent-based systems. Support of a complete life cycle of applications development, reduction of human involvement in their design, implementation and deployment, refinement of languages for agent behavior modeling, reuse of existing software components are the main requirements to efficient and effective development environments. The paper presents one of such environments, multi-agent system development kit (MASDK), that provides for the above requirements.