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

Volume

4

fYear

2010

fDate

4-6 June 2010

Firstpage

137

Lastpage

140

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIC.2010.305

Filename

5514037