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This paper proposes the DALI Multiagent System, which is a logic programming environment for developing agent-based applications, as a tool for component-based software management based on coordination. In particular, we show the usefulness of the integration between DALI and the agent-based Lira system, which is a Light-weight Infrastructure for Reconfiguring Applications. We argue that using intelligent agents for managing component-based software systems makes it possible to: (i) perform monitoring and supervision upon complex properties of a system, such as for instance performance; (ii) perform global reconfigurations dynamically, through the cooperation of intelligent agents.
We acknowledge the support of MIUR 40% project Aggregate- and number-reasoning for computing: from decision algorithms to constraint programming with multisets, sets, and maps and by the Information Society Technologies programme of the European Commission, Future and Emerging Technologies under the IST-2001-37004 WASP project.
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Castaldi, M., Costantini, S., Gentile, S., Tocchio, A. (2004). A Logic-Based Infrastructure for Reconfiguring Applications. In: Leite, J., Omicini, A., Sterling, L., Torroni, P. (eds) Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies. DALT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2990. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25932-9_2
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