Paper Info
Title
Designing Agents' Behaviors and Interactions within the Framework of ADELFE Methodology
Abstract
ADELFE(1) is a methodology devoted to software engineering of adaptive multi-agent systems. Adaptive software is used in situations in which the environment is unpredictable or the system is open; in these cases designers cannot implement a global control on the system and cannot list all situations that the system has to be faced with. To solve this problem ADELFE guarantees that the software is developed according to the AMAS (Adaptive Multi-Agent System) theory(2). This theory, based on self-organizing multi-agent systems, enables to build systems in which agents only pursue a local goal while trying to keep cooperative relations with other agents embedded in the system. ADELFE is linked with OpenTool, a commercialized graphical tool which supports UML notation. The paper focuses on the extension of OpenTool to take into account AMAS theory in designing agents' behaviors. The modifications concern static aspects, by adding specific stereotypes, and dynamic aspects, with the automatic transformations from Agent Interaction Protocols into state machines. Then state machines simulate agent behaviors and enable testing and validating them.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/978-3-540-25946-6_20
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
software engineering,multi agent system,self organization,state machine
Software engineering,Computer science,Uml notation,Finite-state machine,Software,Artificial intelligence,Adaptive software
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
3071
0302-9743
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.75
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carole Bernon133029.42
Valérie Camps29017.42
Marie-Pierre Gleizes372882.57
Gauthier Picard436751.94