Modeling an OMG-MASIF Compliant Mobile Agent Platform with the RM-ODP Engineering Language
MATA '00 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications
Towards an ADL for Designing Agent-Based Systems
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
ODAC: An Agent-Oriented Methodology Based on ODP
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Extending Activity Diagrams to Model Mobile Systems
NODe '02 Revised Papers from the International Conference NetObjectDays on Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a Networked World
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The mobile agent technology provides facilities that enable to reduce the complexity of telecommunication services development. However the major part of this development is still devoted to the code production. In order to optimize the development of services, this production should be reduced while the main part must become an upstream activity, i.e., the elaboration of specifications. This paper introduces an Architecture Description Language (ADL) devoted to the design of mobile agent systems to be implemented in a MASIF compliant platform. The ADL is defined as a UML profile called the MASIF-DESIGN profile. It enables the designer to describe the platform he/she uses, to locate the agents in the platform and to define the elements required from the platform for the achievement of the distribution transparencies.