Interaction protocols (IPs) are necessary for specifying and controlling the conversation of
software agents in open multi-agent systems. This research investigated the automatic …

Gaining wide acceptance for the use of agents in industry requires both relating it to the
nearest antecedent technology (object-oriented software development) and using artifacts to …

Several modeling techniques exist to represent agent interaction protocols mostly based on
work done in distributed systems. These modeling techniques do not take the agent features …

In this paper, I will demonstrate how the Unified Modeling Language (UML) can be used to
describe agent interaction protocols. The approach that is presented in this paper does not …

In the past, research on agent-oriented software engineering had been widely lacking touch
with the world of industrial software development. Recently, a cooperation has been …

Gaining wide acceptance for the use of agents in industry requires both relating it to the
nearest antecedent technology (object-oriented software development) and using artifacts to …

Agents are autonomous software components that can communicate with other agents. In
the software engineering view agents can be regarded as generalizations of objects. Agents …

Abstract Agent-UML (AUML) extended UML in order to facilitate the modeling process for
agent based systems. It offers several graphical notations, including protocol diagrams …

Multi-agent systems are attractive means for developing complex software systems.
However, multi-agent systems themselves tend to be complex, and certain difficulties exist in …

Agent interactions play a crucial role in Multi-Agent Systems. Consequently graphical
formalisms, such as Agent UML, have been adopted that allow agent developers to abstract …