EXPERIENCING AUML IN THE GAIA METHODOLOGY

Luca Cernuzzi, Franco Zambonelli

2004

Abstract

In the last few years a great number of AOSE methodologies have been proposed, some of which centered on organizational aspects to better capture the behavior of agents societies. Those methodologies may be considered very useful for modeling open systems composed of a great number of interacting autonomous agents. Gaia exploits organizational abstractions to provide clear guidelines for the analysis and design of complex and open Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). However, the notation of the Gaia methodology is probably less powerful (and perhaps less acceptable for industry solutions) than others (like AUML). In this perspective, this aims at performing a preliminary exploration towards the potential application of the AUML notation into the Gaia methodology: it explores the above issues using an application example and pays specific attention to the problem of modeling the complexity of open MAS and emergent behaviors.

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Cernuzzi L. and Zambonelli F. (2004). EXPERIENCING AUML IN THE GAIA METHODOLOGY . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 283-288. DOI: 10.5220/0002618802830288


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Luca Cernuzzi and Franco Zambonelli},
title={EXPERIENCING AUML IN THE GAIA METHODOLOGY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={283-288},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002618802830288},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - EXPERIENCING AUML IN THE GAIA METHODOLOGY
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Cernuzzi L.
AU - Zambonelli F.
PY - 2004
SP - 283
EP - 288
DO - 10.5220/0002618802830288