Conversation-based support for requirement definition by a Personal Design Assistant

Author

Sugawara, Kenji ; Manabe, Yusuke ; Shiratori, Norio ; Moulin, Claude ; Moulin, Claude ; Barthes, Jean-Paul A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. & Network Sci., Chiba Inst. of Technol., Chiba, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

18-20 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

262

Lastpage

267

Abstract

A Personal Design Assistant (PDA) is an agent program that supports a designer whose role is to support an engineer who defines design specifications during system development. The PDA is a multi-agent system consisting of a conversation agent, design skill agents, a user model, an ontology, a planning function to support, communication and collaboration with other agents and designers. The PDA is designed, based on the model of PA (Personal Assistant) provided by the OMAS framework. In this paper, we propose a conceptual design of a PDA conversation-based support for a process of requirement definition of a system development.

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; formal specification; multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); software agents; OMAS framework; PDA; agent program; conversation agent; conversation-based support; design skill agent; design specification definition; multiagent system; ontology; personal design assistant; planning function; requirement definition; system development; user model; Computational modeling; Documentation; Engineering students; Personal digital assistants; Servers; Unified modeling language; Conversation; Design Support; Personal Agent;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC ), 2011 10th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Banff, AB

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1695-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COGINF.2011.6016150

Filename

6016150