Model driven design and implementation of activity-based applications in Hermes

Hermes is an agent-based middleware structured as a component-based and 3-layered software architecture. Hermes provides an integrated, exible programming environment for design and execution of activity-based applications in distributed environments. By using workow technology, it supports even a non expert user programmer in the model driven design and implementation of a domain specic application. In this paper, after a description of Hermes software architecture, we provide a simple demo in biological domain and we show some real case studies in which Hermes has been validated.