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Separating Learning as an Aspect in Malaca Agents
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Separating Learning as an Aspect in Malaca Agents
M. Amor1 , L. Fuentes1 and J. A. Valenzuela1 
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Dpto. Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, |
Abstract
Current OO frameworks provided with MAS development toolkits provide core abstractions to implement the agent behavior, by
using the typical OO specialisation mechanisms. However, these OO designs do not provide proper abstractions to modularize
other extra-functional concerns (e.g. learning property), which are normally intermingled with the agent functionality (tangled code problem), and spread over different classes or components (crosscutting concerns problem). This means that the reusability of the agent architectural components is drastically reduced, so agents are difficult
to maintain, extend or adapt. Aspect-oriented technologies overcome these problems by modeling such concerns as aspects. This work proposes to separate and modularize the learning of software agents following the aspect-oriented solution of the Malaca model. By decoupling the agent functional behavior
from the protocol that carries out the learning activities; the development, adaptation and evolution of intelligent agents
is substantially improved.
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