Developing Virtual Organizations Using MDD

Virtual Organizations are novel mechanisms where agents can demonstrate their social skills, due to the fact that they can work in a cooperative and collaborative way. Furthermore, organizations are frameworks where agents can achieve different types of agreements. But the development of organizations in MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) requires extensive experience in different methodologies and platforms. MDD (Model Driven Development) is a technique for generating application code developed from basic models and meta-models using a variety of automatic transformations. This paper presents a meta-model of Virtual Organization (of agents) using concepts and components at a suitable level of abstraction so that it can be implemented on different systems following a MDD approach. Based on this idea, a service-oriented organizations meta-model that is platform independent is presented. As an example, two model transformations that allow the unified model of the virtual organization to be translated into two different platforms are shown, facilitating the development process of agent-based software from the point of view of the user.