MA-UML: a conceptual approach for mobile agents' modelling

  • Authors:
  • Hela Hachicha;Adlen Loukil;Khaled Ghedira

  • Affiliations:
  • LI3, Institut Superieur de Gestion de Tunis, Universite de Tunis, Tunisia.;LI3, Institut Superieur de Gestion de Tunis, Universite de Tunis, Tunisia.;LI3, Institut Superieur de Gestion de Tunis, Universite de Tunis, Tunisia

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In recent years, software development based on Mobile Agents (MAs) has received important attention because it introduces a new development paradigm for widely distributed and heterogeneous systems. However, the existing work has mostly focused on the implementation phase of the MA-based applications development process and they do not take into consideration the analysis and design phases. In this paper, we present a conceptual approach to model MAs. This approach is materialised by a Unified Modelling Language (UML) profile, called MA-UML for modelling MAs.