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Using the MAS-ML to Model a Multi-agent System

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Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems II (SELMAS 2003)

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The current object-oriented development practice system analysis is documented through UML artifacts such as Class and Sequence diagrams. Since UML is a widely accepted modeling language, it also would be desirable to offer a UML support for the representation of agent-based system analysis artifacts. Although some central UML constructs are suitably matched for agent-based modeling, several improvements must be made to the UML meta-model to achieve this new goal. This paper presents MAS-ML, a UML extension for agent-based system modeling. The use of MAS-ML for modeling agent-based systems is presented with a simple illustrating application.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Software Engineering Lab, PUC-Rio, Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225 Gávea, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Viviane Torres da Silva, Ricardo Choren & Carlos J. P. de Lucena

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  1. Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Carlos Lucena

  2. Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Marques de Sao Vicente, 225, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Alessandro Garcia

  3. Computer Science School, Newcastle University, UK

    Alexander Romanovsky

  4. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil

    Jaelson Castro

  5. School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Paulo S. C. Alencar

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da Silva, V.T., Choren, R., de Lucena, C.J.P. (2004). Using the MAS-ML to Model a Multi-agent System. In: Lucena, C., Garcia, A., Romanovsky, A., Castro, J., Alencar, P.S.C. (eds) Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems II. SELMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24625-1_8

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