Florian Nafz, Frank Ortmeier, Hella Seebach, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Wolfgang Reif. Implementing Organic Computing Systems With Agentservice. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. 2008.
Designing and implementing Organic Computing systems is typically a difficult task. To facilitate the construction a design pattern for Organic Computing systems has been developed. This organic design pattern (ODP) helps in modeling and designing a broad class of Organic Computing systems. This paper focuses on the implementation of Organic Computing systems with the help of this pattern. The core idea is to provide a generic implementation by mapping ODP artifacts to artifacts of a multi-agent framework. The used framework – AgentService – is one of the few C# multi-agent frameworks. In this paper a possible implementation as well as benefits and limitations are described.