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The use of UML extension mechanisms for the definition of an Agent-Oriented Modeling Language only fixes its syntax. But agent concepts demand an appropriate semantics for a visual modeling language. Graphs have been shown to constitute a precise and general semantic domain for visual modeling languages. The question is how agent concepts can be systematically represented in the semantic domain and further on be expressed by appropriate UML diagrams. We propose a language architecture based on the semantic domain of graphs and elements of the concrete syntax of UML. We use the proposed language architecture to define parts of an agent-oriented modeling language.
Work supported in part by the EC’s Human Potential Programme under contract HPRN-CT-2002-00275, [Research Training Network SegraVis].
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Depke, R., Hausmann, J.H., Heckel, R. (2004). Design of an Agent-Oriented Modeling Language Based on Graph Transformation. In: Pfaltz, J.L., Nagl, M., Böhlen, B. (eds) Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance. AGTIVE 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25959-6_8
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