Managing the Evolution of an Enterprise Architecture using a MAS-Product-Line Approach

Abstract

We view an evolutionary system ns being n software product line. The core architecture is the ~inchnngingpnrt of the system, and each version of the system may be viewed as a product from the product line. Each "producr " may be de scribed as the core architecture with sonre agent-based nd ditions. The result is a multiagent system software product line. We describe an approach to such n Software Product Line-based approach using the MaCMAS Agent-Oriented nzethoclology. The approach scales to enterprise nrchitec tures as a multiagent system is an approprinre means of representing a changing enterprise nrchitectclre nnd the in feraction between components in if