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The current object-oriented development practice system analysis is documented through UML artifacts such as Class and Sequence diagrams. Since UML is a widely accepted modeling language, it also would be desirable to offer a UML support for the representation of agent-based system analysis artifacts. Although some central UML constructs are suitably matched for agent-based modeling, several improvements must be made to the UML meta-model to achieve this new goal. This paper presents MAS-ML, a UML extension for agent-based system modeling. The use of MAS-ML for modeling agent-based systems is presented with a simple illustrating application.
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da Silva, V.T., Choren, R., de Lucena, C.J.P. (2004). Using the MAS-ML to Model a Multi-agent System. In: Lucena, C., Garcia, A., Romanovsky, A., Castro, J., Alencar, P.S.C. (eds) Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems II. SELMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24625-1_8
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