Paper Info
Title
Model integration in agent-oriented development
Abstract
Each current agent-oriented methodology focuses on some aspects of multi-agent systems and may leave others aside. For this reason, a developer may find it useful to apply different specialised methods and tools for each aspect of the system under development. Nevertheless, the integration of different elements into a specification is not trivial. This paper proposes addressing this issue by using mappings between different modelling languages and an intermediate language. The use of this intermediate language called Unified Modelling Language for Activity Theory (UML-AT), reduces the number of required mappings. Being rooted in the Activity Theory (AT) framework, which comes from social sciences, UML-AT supports most of the key agent-related concepts found in literature. The application of this integration approach is illustrated with a case study about the implementation of Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) protocols. The case study involves the use of a software support tool for the translation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1504/IJAOSE.2007.013263
IJAOSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
different element,key agent-related concept,intermediate language,intelligent physical agents,activity theory,current agent-oriented methodology,model integration,agent-oriented development,different specialised method,different modelling language,case study,integration approach,unified modelling language,multi agent systems,method engineering,intelligent agents,uml
Intelligent agent,Software engineering,Unified Modeling Language,Agent-oriented software engineering,Computer science,Method engineering,Multi-agent system,Software,Artificial intelligence,Underdevelopment,Aside,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
1
1
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruben Fuentes-Fernandez1253.10
Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz269658.51
Juan Pavón3544.43