On combining organisational modelling and graphical languages for the development of multiagent systems

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Arenas, Álvaro E. | García-Ojeda, Juan C. | Pérez-Alcázar, José de J.^{; *}

Affiliations: Laboratorio de Cómputo Especializado, Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Calle 48 No 39 – 234, Santander, Colombia

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Tel.: +57 7 6436111, Ext. 222; E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: This article illustrates the application of the Gaia methodology to the development of a system for Selective Dissemination of Information on the Web, as well as the integration of Gaia with AUML. This allows a concrete design closer to implementation and the developer offers a better insight into the multiagent system that is being built. Gaia is an agent-oriented organisational methodology that generates an abstract model based on roles describing the system agents, their services and interactions. AUML, as an agent-based extension of the graphical language UML, uses that model as input and breaks it down into a series of diagrams that facilitates its implementation.

DOI: 10.3233/ICA-2004-11205

Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 151-163, 2004