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Extending UML for Agents

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Overview Gaining wide acceptance for the use of agents in industry requires both relating it to the nearest antecedent technology (object-oriented software development) and using artifacts to support the development environment throughout the full system lifecycle. This paper addresses both of these requirements in this paper by describing some of the most common requirements for modeling agents and agent-based systems - using a set of UML idioms and extensions. This paper illustrates the approach by presenting a three-layer AUML representation for agent interaction protocols and concludes by including other useful agent-based extensions to UML.

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Publisher	Siemens	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2000	Downloads	7
Format	White Papers
Topics	UML, Software Engineering

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