EXTENDING MAS-ML TO MODEL PROACTIVE AND REACTIVE SOTWARE AGENTS

Enyo José Tavares Gonçalves, Mariela I. Cortés, Gustavo A. L. de Campos, Viviane Torres da Silva

2010

Abstract

The existence of Multi Agent System (MAS) where agents with different internal architectures interact to achieve their goals promotes the need for a language capable of modeling these applications. In this context we highlight MAS-ML, a MAS modeling language that performs a conservative extension of UML while incorporating agent-related concepts. Nevertheless MAS-ML was developed to support pro-active agents. This paper aims to extend MAS-ML to support the modelling of not only proactive but also reactive agents based on the architectures described in the literature.

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José Tavares Gonçalves E., I. Cortés M., A. L. de Campos G. and Torres da Silva V. (2010). EXTENDING MAS-ML TO MODEL PROACTIVE AND REACTIVE SOTWARE AGENTS . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-05-8, pages 75-84. DOI: 10.5220/0002907700750084


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@conference{iceis10,
author={Enyo José Tavares Gonçalves and Mariela I. Cortés and Gustavo A. L. de Campos and Viviane Torres da Silva},
title={EXTENDING MAS-ML TO MODEL PROACTIVE AND REACTIVE SOTWARE AGENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={75-84},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002907700750084},
isbn={978-989-8425-05-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - EXTENDING MAS-ML TO MODEL PROACTIVE AND REACTIVE SOTWARE AGENTS
SN - 978-989-8425-05-8
AU - José Tavares Gonçalves E.
AU - I. Cortés M.
AU - A. L. de Campos G.
AU - Torres da Silva V.
PY - 2010
SP - 75
EP - 84
DO - 10.5220/0002907700750084