TY - GEN
T1 - Knowledge based design method of agent protocols
AU - Matsumoto, Kazunori
AU - Miyahara, Tetsuhiro
AU - Nagai, Yasuo
AU - Honiden, Shinichi
PY - 2005/12/1
Y1 - 2005/12/1
N2 - This paper proposes a design method for agent interaction protocols (AIPs) in multi-agent systems. The method starts a design process with informal and ambiguous requirements in English, and according to the clearly defined development stages the method gradually converts them into clear specifications expressed in augmented UML. Similar to the object-oriented development, the early stages include extractions of agents, roles of agents, actions, goals, and several types of logical constraints. Based on these information, the successive stages generate skeletons of scenarios, which specify the necessary conditions to achieve a goal. Completing the skeleton with added information from the designer, the skeletons become the final AIP designs. We also show a reuse of design knowledge is possible in each step of the method.
AB - This paper proposes a design method for agent interaction protocols (AIPs) in multi-agent systems. The method starts a design process with informal and ambiguous requirements in English, and according to the clearly defined development stages the method gradually converts them into clear specifications expressed in augmented UML. Similar to the object-oriented development, the early stages include extractions of agents, roles of agents, actions, goals, and several types of logical constraints. Based on these information, the successive stages generate skeletons of scenarios, which specify the necessary conditions to achieve a goal. Completing the skeleton with added information from the designer, the skeletons become the final AIP designs. We also show a reuse of design knowledge is possible in each step of the method.
KW - AOSE
KW - Agent interaction protocol
KW - Agent system
KW - Software design methodology
KW - Software engineering
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867338148
SN - 9806560531
SN - 9789806560536
T3 - WMSCI 2005 - The 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings
SP - 381
EP - 386
BT - WMSCI 2005 - The 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings
T2 - 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, WMSCI 2005
Y2 - 10 July 2005 through 13 July 2005
ER -