Improving the architectural design of multi-agent systems: the tropos case

Authors:
Carla Silva;Jaelson Castro;Patrícia Tedesco;João Araújo;Ana Moreira;John Mylopoulos
Affiliations:
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife-PE, Brasil;Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife-PE, Brasil and Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica - IRST, Trento-Povo, Italy;-;Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal;Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal;University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Agents provide developers with a flexible way of structuring systems around autonomous, communicative elements. In order to support the efficient development of such systems, design techniques need to be introduced. In this context, we propose a set of UML-based diagrams which can be used to capture structural and behavioral features of the Belief-Desire-Intention agent model. The approach aims at supporting detailed architectural design of multi-agent systems by providing a process to guide the description of agent roles according to the proposed diagrams in the context of the Tropos framework. To illustrate the approach we present a Conference Management System case study.