Agent-oriented software modeling

Author

Kim, Minjeong ; Lee, Seungyun ; Park, Injae ; Kim, Jintae ; Park, Sooyong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Sogang Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

318

Lastpage

325

Abstract

Due to the increased applications of agents, agent-oriented software becomes large and complex. To support systematic developments of such software, the agent-oriented software development methodology needs to be developed. This paper focuses on the modeling phase of agent-oriented software development. For agent-oriented software modeling, the Agent Elicitation method, Intra and Inter Agent modeling method are proposed. Agent Elicitation shows how to extract agents from classes in the real world. Modeling methods of agent´s characteristics-Goal, Belief, Plan and Capability-are proposed for Intra Agent modeling. Methods of agent´s mobility and communication in multiagent systems are proposed for Inter Agent modeling

Keywords

formal specification; object-oriented programming; software agents; Agent Elicitation method; Inter Agent modeling; Intra Agent modeling; agent communication; agent-oriented software modeling; formal specification; multiagent systems; software development methodology; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Electronic commerce; Electronic mail; Filtering; Humans; Programming; Software engineering; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 1999. (APSEC '99) Proceedings. Sixth Asia Pacific

Conference_Location

Takamatsu

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0509-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSEC.1999.809618

Filename

809618