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Agent UML Class Diagrams Revisited

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Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services (NODe 2002)

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Agent UML is a graphical modeling language based on UML. Like UML, Agent UML provides several types of representation covering the description of the system, the components, the dynamics of the system and the deployment. Multiagent system designers already use Agent UML to represent interaction protocols [13],[2]. Since agents and objects differ on several points, UML class diagram has to be modified for describing agents. The aim of this paper is to present how to extend UML class diagrams in order to represent agents. We then compare our approach to Bauer’s approach [1].

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  1. Agent ART Group, University of Liverpool, L69 7ZF, Liverpool, UK

    Marc-Philippe Huget

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jaime G. Carbonell

  2. University of Saarland, Saabrücken, Germany

    Jörg Siekmann

  3. CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, 3053, Victoria, Australia

    Ryszard Kowalczyk

  4. Siemens AG, CT IC 6, Munich, Germany

    Jörg P. Müller

  5. Department of Computing, Glasgow Caledonian University, City Campus, 70 Cowcaddens Road, G4 0BA, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Huaglory Tianfield

  6. Institute for Computer Science, University of Essen, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

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Huget, MP. (2003). Agent UML Class Diagrams Revisited. In: Carbonell, J.G., Siekmann, J., Kowalczyk, R., Müller, J.P., Tianfield, H., Unland, R. (eds) Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services. NODe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36559-1_6

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