Grupo Alarcos · Conference paper · 2013
REAGENT: Reverse Engineering of Multi-Agent Systems
Ricardo Pérez del Castillo, Juan Pavón, Jorge Jesús Gómez Sanz, Mario Piattini Velthuis
Agent-based technology is being used in an increasing variety of applications and domains. Despite the substantial research effort on methodologies for analyzing, designing and implementing multi-agent systems (MAS), maintenance and evolution of MAS software is nowadays challenging. This paper presents REAGENT, a reverse engineering technique for retrieving MAS design models from the source code of Jade based MAS implementations. REAGENT support tools have been experimentally evaluated by means of a case study with 19 benchmark programs from textbook. REAGENT has proved to be able to collect accurate and complete agent models in a linear time regarding the size of agent models, which facilitates its applicability to large, complex, industrial MAS.
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