The Mobile Unified Modeling Language for an agent-based bartering software application

Author

El Morr, C. ; Saleh, K.

Author_Institution

MIS, American Univ. of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2003

fDate

14-18 July 2003

Firstpage

45

Abstract

Summary form only given. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a language for the specification, visualization, and documentation of object-oriented software systems. However, UML cannot describe explicitly the mobility requirements needed for modeling mobile agent-based software systems. We present M-UML, our proposed extension to the UML in order to enable it to represent mobility. The use of M-UML is illustrated using a mobile agent-based bartering software (mabaso). While many Web services that help users barter online, to our knowledge no one has addressed mobile bartering. We formally define an electronic commerce bartering business model based on mobile agents. The requirements specifications and design of mabaso system is presented using the M-UML notations we´ve developed.

Keywords

electronic commerce; formal specification; mobile agents; object-oriented programming; specification languages; Unified Modeling Language; electronic commerce bartering business model; m-uml notations; mabaso system design; mobile agent-based bartering software system; mobile unified modeling language; mobility requirement specifications; object oriented software system documentation; Application software; Computer science; Documentation; Electronic commerce; Mobile computing; Object oriented modeling; Software systems; Unified modeling language; Visualization; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Systems and Applications, 2003. Book of Abstracts. ACS/IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tunis, Tunisia

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7983-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AICCSA.2003.1227478

Filename

1227478