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on a platform independent agent core DSL and provides generic extension interfaces
for integrating results from agent research as well as for customizing it regarding user-
specific application domains, AOSE methods, and target platforms. Section 3 provided
an overview of B
OCHICA
and presented an iterative adaptation process for integrating
conceptual extensions. The framework interfaces were introduced in Section 4. We eval-
uated B
OCHICA
at the application domain of agents in semantically-enhanced virtual
worlds. Our experience showed that around 10% of new concepts and mapping rules
were necessary to create a development environment which enables efficient modeling
of ISReal agents. We see our approach as a contribution to the unification of the diverse
field of agent-oriented modeling and to bridge agent research and concrete software de-
velopment. In the future, we want to integrate existing agent methodologies and work
on collaborative modeling of agent-based systems.
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