On the design of agent-based systems using UML and extensions

Author

Dinsoreanu, Mihaela ; Salomie, Ioan ; Pusztai, Kalman

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

205

Abstract

The Unified Software Development Process (USDP) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) have been now generally accepted as the standard methodology and modeling language for developing object-oriented systems. Although agent-based systems introduce new issues, we consider that USDP and UML can be used in an extended manner for modeling agent-based systems. We present a methodology for designing agent-based systems and the specific models expressed in the UML-based notation corresponding to each phase of the software development process. UML was extended using the provided mechanism: stereotypes. Therefore, this approach can be managed with any CASE tool supporting UML. A case study, the development of a specific agent-based student assessment system (SAS), is presented.

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; formal specification; intelligent tutoring systems; object-oriented programming; software agents; software tools; specification languages; CASE tool; UML; Unified Modeling Language; Unified Software Development Process; Web-based distance education; agent-based student assessment system; agent-based systems design; intelligent tutor; notation; object-oriented systems; stereotypes; Computer aided software engineering; Design methodology; Kalman filters; Object oriented modeling; Programming; Software engineering; Software standards; Standards development; Synthetic aperture sonar; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Interfaces, 2002. ITI 2002. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on

ISSN

1330-1012

Print_ISBN

953-96769-5-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITI.2002.1024675

Filename

1024675