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1 online resource (xi, 355 pages) : illustrations |
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Whitestein series in software agent technologies and autonomic computing |
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Whitestein series in software agent technologies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Goals of this Work -- 1.3 Outline of the Book -- Part I: Background Information -- 2 Survey on Agent-Oriented Modeling Languages -- 2.1 Gaia -- 2.2 AUML -- 2.3 MESSAGE -- 2.4 Tropos -- 2.5 MAS-ML -- 2.6 AOR -- 2.7 Summary of Today's MAS Modeling Languages -- 3 Requirements on a MAS Modeling Language -- Part II: Solution Summary -- 4 The AML Approach -- 4.1 The Purpose of AML -- 4.2 The Scope of AML -- 4.3 The Development of AML -- 4.4 AML Sources -- 4.5 The Language Architecture -- 5 Concepts of AML -- 5.1 Multi-Agent System -- 5.2 MAS Semi-entities and Entities -- 5.3 Structural Aspects -- 5.4 Social Aspects -- 5.5 MAS Deployment and Mobility -- 5.6 Behaviors -- 5.7 Mental Aspects -- 5.8 Ontologies -- 6 AML Modeling Mechanisms -- 6.1 Generic Modeling Mechanisms -- 6.2 Modeling Entity Types -- 6.3 Modeling Social Aspects -- 6.4 Modeling MAS Deployment and Mobility -- 6.5 Modeling Capabilities and Behavior Decomposition -- 6.6 Modeling Interactions -- 6.7 Modeling Mental Aspects -- 6.8 Modeling Ontologies -- 6.9 Modeling Contexts -- 7 Related Work -- 7.1 CASE Tool Support -- 7.2 Methodological Support -- 7.3 Practical Application of AML -- 7.4 Standardization Activities -- Part III: AML Specification -- 8 Extensions to Standard UML Notation -- 8.1 Stereotyped Classifier -- 8.2 ConnectableElement with a Stereotyped Type -- 8.3 Connector with a Stereotyped Type -- 8.4 Lifeline with a Stereotyped Type -- 8.5 Composed Lifelines in Communication Diagrams -- 8.6 ObjectNode with a Stereotyped Type -- 8.7 Bi-directional Dependencies -- 8.8 Internal Structure of ConnectableElements -- 9 Organization of the AML Specification -- 9.1 Overall AML Package Structure -- 9.2 Specification Structure -- 10 Architecture -- 10.1 Entities -- 10.2 Agents -- 10.3 Resources -- 10.4 Environments -- 10.5 Social Aspects -- 10.6 MAS Deployment -- 11 Behaviors -- 11.1 Basic Behaviors -- 11.2 Behavior Decomposition -- 11.3 Communicative Interactions -- 11.4 Services -- 11.5 Observations and Effecting Interactions -- 11.6 Mobility -- 12 Mental -- 12.1 Mental States -- 12.2 Beliefs -- 12.3 Goals -- 12.4 Plans -- 12.5 Mental Relationships -- 13 Ontologies -- 13.1 Basic Ontologies -- 14 Model Management -- 14.1 Contexts -- 15 UML Extension for AML -- 15.1 Extended Actor -- 15.2 Extended BehavioralFeature -- 15.3 Extended Behavior -- 16 Diagrams -- 16.1 Diagram Frames -- 16.2 Diagram Types -- 17 Extension of OCL -- 17.1 New Operators -- Part IV: Final Remarks -- 18 Conclusions -- 18.1 Context of the Work -- 18.2 Solution -- 18.3 Challenges -- 18.4 Results -- 18.5 Summary of Original Contribution -- 19 Further Work |
| Summary |
The field of study known as multi-agent systems has been in existence for more than 25 years. During this period it has already been recognized, and supported by both theoretical and practical evidence, that such systems have the potential to improve the practice in software engineering, and even to extend the range of applications that can feasibly be tackled. However, one important aspect of multi-agent systems that still lacks complete and proper definition, general acceptance and practical application, is that of modeling, despite the substantial efforts of an active research community. The focus of this book is thus on an approach to resolving this insufficiency by providing a comprehensive modeling language designed as an extension to UML 2.0, focused specifically on the modeling of multi-agent systems and applications. This language is AML--the Agent Modeling Language--the design of which is informed by previous work in this area while explicitly addressing known limitations relating to managing complexity and improving coverage and comprehension. The book is addressed to researchers, students, software engineers, methodologists, and tool developers with the objective to explain foundation, design principles, specification, and usage of AML |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-349) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Springer e-books |
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Intelligent agents (Computer software)
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Software engineering.
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Programming languages (Electronic computers)
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Artificial Intelligence
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Electronic Data Processing
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Computer Simulation
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COMPUTERS -- Enterprise Applications -- Business Intelligence Tools.
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COMPUTERS -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics.
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Programming languages (Electronic computers)
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Intelligent agents (Computer software)
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Software engineering.
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Informatique.
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Intelligent agents (Computer software)
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Programming languages (Electronic computers)
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Software engineering
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artificial intelligence.
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simulation.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Trencansky, Ivan, 1943-
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| ISBN |
9783764383961 |
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3764383968 |
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9783764383954 |
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376438395X |
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