Title :
Conversation-based support for requirement definition by a Personal Design Assistant
Author :
Sugawara, Kenji ; Manabe, Yusuke ; Shiratori, Norio ; Moulin, Claude ; Moulin, Claude ; Barthes, Jean-Paul A.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. & Network Sci., Chiba Inst. of Technol., Chiba, Japan
Abstract :
A Personal Design Assistant (PDA) is an agent program that supports a designer whose role is to support an engineer who defines design specifications during system development. The PDA is a multi-agent system consisting of a conversation agent, design skill agents, a user model, an ontology, a planning function to support, communication and collaboration with other agents and designers. The PDA is designed, based on the model of PA (Personal Assistant) provided by the OMAS framework. In this paper, we propose a conceptual design of a PDA conversation-based support for a process of requirement definition of a system development.
Keywords :
computer aided software engineering; formal specification; multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); software agents; OMAS framework; PDA; agent program; conversation agent; conversation-based support; design skill agent; design specification definition; multiagent system; ontology; personal design assistant; planning function; requirement definition; system development; user model; Computational modeling; Documentation; Engineering students; Personal digital assistants; Servers; Unified modeling language; Conversation; Design Support; Personal Agent;
Conference_Titel :
Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC ), 2011 10th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Banff, AB
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1695-9
DOI :
10.1109/COGINF.2011.6016150
