Multi-Agent Rule-Based Development Environments

基于规则的多代理开发环境

• 批准号: 9106368
• 负责人: Gail Kaiser
• 金额: $ 23.63万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-01 至 1993-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9106368&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Multi; Agent; Rule; Based; Development

This project is to develop a model for cooperative work in multi-user rule-based development environments (RBDEs). RBDEs forma class of environments that assist developers in carrying out the development process. RBDEs are built on object management systems that abstract project components as objects, representing both product and process. They model the development process in terms of planning system-style rules that act on these objects. Each rule encapsulates an activity by specifying the condition that must be satisfied to initiate the activity and the effects of completing the activity. RBDEs maintain object base consistency and automatically carry out some development activities through forward and backward chaining among the rules. Most existing RBDEs are single-user; those that support multiple users isolate the users, preventing cooperation. The goal of this project is to scale up RBDEs to assist teams of developers cooperating on large-scale projects. This cooperation involves: (1) concurrency control; (2) multiple views; (3) evolution; and (4) distribution. These four problems will be solved in the context of the MARVEL RBDE. A single-user version of MARVEL has been completed, and licensed to 11 external sites. Scaling up MARVEL involves solving the four theoretical problems in addition to engineering the MARVEL architecture.

该项目旨在开发多用户基于规则的开发环境(RBDEs)中的协作工作模型。RBDEs形成了一类帮助开发人员执行开发过程的环境。RBDE构建在对象管理系统上，该系统将项目组件抽象为对象，既表示产品又表示过程。他们根据作用于这些对象的计划系统风格的规则对开发过程进行建模。每个规则通过指定启动活动必须满足的条件和完成活动的效果来封装活动。RBDEs通过规则之间的正向和反向链接来维护对象库的一致性，并自动执行一些开发活动。大多数现有的RBDEs是单用户的；那些支持多个用户的RBDEs隔离了用户，阻碍了合作。这个项目的目标是扩大RBDEs的规模，以帮助在大型项目上合作的开发团队。这种协作涉及：(1)并发控制；(2)多视图；(3)演化；(4)分发。这四个问题将在漫威RBDE的背景下得到解决。漫威的单用户版本已经完成，并授权给11个外部网站。扩大漫威的规模除了设计漫威架构外，还涉及解决四个理论问题。