Title :
DPMAS: A Design Method for Multi-agent System Using Agent UML
Author :
Zhao, Zhikun ; Xu, Yinglei
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Eng., Shandong Univ. of Finance, Jinan, China
Abstract :
A design method for multi-agent system is presented, named DPMAS. DPMAS uses agent UML, an extension of the UML in Object Oriented domain, as its modeling language. It provides a group of graphs to help designers in modeling multi-agent systems. Many agent specific concepts and denotations are introduced in these graphs. DPMAS suggests a design process that covers requirement specification, task specification, agent specification and deployment description. A tool called AUMP has been developed to aid designers in drawing graphs used in DPMAS. AUMP is the design platform of the well known MAGE 2 agent environments.
Keywords :
Unified Modeling Language; multi-agent systems; object-oriented methods; software engineering; DPMAS; MAGE 2 agent environments; UML agent; design method; multi-agent system; object oriented domain; Computer networks; Design methodology; Distributed computing; Finance; Intelligent agent; Multiagent systems; Object oriented modeling; Process design; Software systems; Unified modeling language; agent UML; multi-agent system; software engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Computing (ICIC), 2010 Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuxi, Jiang Su
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7081-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7082-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICIC.2010.305
