The Agent Modeling Language - AML A Comprehensive Approach to Modeling Multi-Agent Systems /

• Main Authors: Cervenka, Radovan (Author), Trencansky, Ivan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2007.
• Series: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing
• Subjects: Computer science.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Artificial intelligence.; Computer simulation.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Simulation and Modeling.

The field of study known as multi-agent systems has been in existence for more than 25 years. During this period it has already been recognized, and supported by both theoretical and practical evidence, that such systems have the potential to improve the practice in software engineering, and even to...

Table of Contents:

• Background Information
• Survey on Agent-Oriented Modeling Languages
• Requirements on a MAS Modeling Language
• Solution Summary
• The AML Approach
• Concepts of AML
• AML Modeling Mechanisms
• Related Work
• AML Specification
• Extensions to Standard UML Notation
• Organization of the AML Specification
• Architecture
• Behaviors
• Mental
• Ontologies
• Model Management
• UML Extension for AML
• Diagrams
• Extension of OCL
• Final Remarks
• Conclusions
• Further Work.