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4. Conclusions and furher work
We have proposed in this paper an intelligent multiagent decision support system
(DSSEM ) that can be used for assisting software developers in some activities related
to the maintenance and evolution of software systems. We have presented the architecture
of the proposed system, a scenario of using it, and we have also emphasized
the system’s importance.
Further work may be done in the following directions: to identify solutions for
improving the performance of DSSEM system using parallel computation; to extend
DSSEM system by including all the functionalities related to the structural adaptation
and behavioral self-adaptation of software systems; to experimentally validate DSSEM
multiagent system on real software systems.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. This work was supported by the research project ID 2268/2009,
sponsored by the Romanian National University Research Council.
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(1) Department of Computer Science, Babes¸-Bolyai University, 1 M. Kogalniceanu
Street, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
E-mail address: {gabis, istvanc, adriana, grigo}@cs.ubbcluj.ro