Refinement operators to facilitate the reuse of interaction laws in open multi-agent systems

As new software demands and requirements appear, the system and its interaction laws must evolve to support these changes. Languages and models should provide the tools for dealing with this evolution. Poor support for evolution has a negative impact on system maintainability. In this paper, we propose some refinement operators to extend the interaction laws in open multi-agent systems. As an example of this idea, we implemented a customizable application in the supply chain management domain as an open system environment.

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