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Modeling Multi-agent systems with ANote

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An important issue in getting the agent technology into mainstream software development is the development of appropriate methodologies for developing agent-oriented systems. This paper presents an approach to model distributed systems based on a goal-oriented requirements acquisition. These models are acquired as instances of a conceptual meta-model. The latter can be represented as a graph where each node captures a concept such as, e.g., goal, action, agent, or scenario, and where the edges capture semantic links between such abstractions. This approach is supported by a modeling language, the ANote, which presents views that capture the most important modeling aspects according to the concept currently under consideration.

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    Ricardo Choren & Carlos Lucena

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Choren, R., Lucena, C. Modeling Multi-agent systems with ANote. Softw Syst Model 4, 199–208 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-004-0065-y

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