Paper Info
Title
Investigating UML- and Ontology-Based Approaches for Process Improvement in Developing Agile Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract
Multi-agent systems (MAS) that link business and physical domains such as in production automation need to be reconfigured correctly and efficiently to adapt to new requirements. The standard UML-based approach only partly supports the reconfiguration process to capture agent classes and their instances, while ontologies allow modeling all aspects of MAS design in one common continuous model. In this paper we introduce a MAS development lifecycle and focus on the product-specific reconfiguration of a system built mostly from reusable agents. We investigate the process variants based on (a) UML and (b) ontologies. We evaluate both process variants in a feasibility study using fundamental illustrative scenarios from an industrial production automation environment and derive lessons learned for process improvement in building sustainable MAS in the scope of production automation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/SEAA.2008.37
EUROMICRO-SEAA
Keywords
Field
DocType
process variant,mas design,product-specific reconfiguration,mas development lifecycle,production automation,process improvement,sustainable mas,agile multi-agent systems,ontology-based approaches,industrial production automation environment,multi-agent system,reconfiguration process,development process,life cycle,uml,multi agent system,unified modeling language,industrial production,feasibility study,multi agent systems,business
Ontology (information science),Software engineering,Systems engineering,Unified Modeling Language,Computer science,Automation,Agile software development,Multi-agent system,Applications of UML,Software development process,Control reconfiguration
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Moser1163.46
Klemens Kunz200.34
Kamil Matousek3257.02
Dindin Wahyudin4484.99