Automating the Product Derivation Process of Multi-agent Systems Product Lines

Agent-oriented software engineering and software product lines are two promising software engineering techniques. Recent research work explores the integration between them to allow reuse and variability management in the context of complex systems. However, the automatic product derivation process is not addressed in the current literature. In this paper, we present our approach to deal with multi-agent systems product lines (MAS-PL) variability management and automatic product derivation. Our approach is implemented as an extension of the GenArch product derivation tool. A case study illustrates how the proposed approach can be used to derive products (instances) from a MAS-PL.