A template-based approach to code generation within an agent paradigm

• Authors: Francisco Pinto-Santos, Zakieh Alizadeh-Sani, David Alonso, Alfonso González-Briones, Pablo Chamoso, Juan M. Corchado
• Location: PAAMS 2021 : 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Abstract:

Today, the paradigm of multi-agent systems has earned a place in the field of software engineering thanks to its versatility to adapt to various domains. However, the construction of these systems is complex, which leads to additional costs in the implementation process. In recent years, however, several frameworks have emerged to simplify this task by providing functionalities that these systems need as a basis, or even tools to generate code related to this paradigm.  These tools are based on a single framework, protocol and language, which sets many limits to the code generation capacity of these tools.

Therefore, this paper proposes a tool for code generation of complete multi-agent systems, focused on the elimination of the restrictions of programming language, framework, communication protocol, etc. through the use of model-driven and template-driven development.