TY - GEN
T1 - Software Design Method for Agent-Systems from Scenarios
AU - Matsumoto, Kazunori
AU - Honiden, Shinichi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © (2004) by the International Society for Computers and Their Applications. All rights reserved.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - This paper proposes a design method for agent interaction protocols (AIP) 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 consolidate specifications described in 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 in UML.
AB - This paper proposes a design method for agent interaction protocols (AIP) 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 consolidate specifications described in 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 in UML.
KW - agent interaction protocol
KW - agent system
KW - CASE tool
KW - software design methodology
KW - software engineering
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85132022185
T3 - 19th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications 2004, CATA 2004
SP - 136
EP - 141
BT - 19th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications 2004, CATA 2004
A2 - Gupta, Bidyut
PB - The International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA)
T2 - 19th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, CATA 2004
Y2 - 18 March 2004 through 20 March 2004
ER -