DESIGN OF A MODELLING LANGUAGE FOR SEMIOTICS BASED AGENT SYSTEMS

Mangtang Chan

2010

Abstract

Semiotics has been used to describe computer programming and systems since 1960. The use of semiotics in information system development has not yet been seen as a mainstream paradigm although a methodology MEASUR has been established based on the semiotic framework. To evangelise the use of the semiotic framework, this paper defines a modelling language which supports systems specification by applying the Semantic Analysis and Norm Analysis methods in MEASUR. During the design of the language, the Model-Drive Development approach is used as a reference and a meta-model of semiotic agents is defined. The detail language constructs are presented and illustrated with an example of inter-agent tracking.

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Chan M. (2010). DESIGN OF A MODELLING LANGUAGE FOR SEMIOTICS BASED AGENT SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations - Volume 1: ICISO, ISBN 978-989-8425-26-3, pages 95-102. DOI: 10.5220/0003267200950102


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@conference{iciso10,
author={Mangtang Chan},
title={DESIGN OF A MODELLING LANGUAGE FOR SEMIOTICS BASED AGENT SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations - Volume 1: ICISO,},
year={2010},
pages={95-102},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003267200950102},
isbn={978-989-8425-26-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations - Volume 1: ICISO,
TI - DESIGN OF A MODELLING LANGUAGE FOR SEMIOTICS BASED AGENT SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8425-26-3
AU - Chan M.
PY - 2010
SP - 95
EP - 102
DO - 10.5220/0003267200950102