A UML-based conversion tool for monitoring and testing multi-agent systems

Nariman Mani; Vahid Garousi; Behrouz H. Far

doi:10.1109/ICTAI.2008.114

A UML-based conversion tool for monitoring and testing multi-agent systems

Nariman Mani^*
, Vahid Garousi
, Behrouz H. Far

^*Corresponding author for this work

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6 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The increasing demand for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in the software industry has led to development of several Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies. The autonomous agents' interaction in a dynamic software environment can potentially lead to runtime behavioral failures such as deadlock. Therefore, the MAS environment should be tested and monitored against the unwanted emergent behaviors. The AOSE methodologies usually do not cover monitoring and testing. On the other hand model-based software development practices such as the Unified Modeling Languages (UML) are commonly used in practice and are equipped with a rich set of model based testing and monitoring tools. In this paper, we propose a conversion tool to help MAS engineers use UML-based monitoring and testing tools to test and monitor MAS design and analysis artifacts created by Multi-agent Software Engineering (MaSE) as one of the most powerful and famous AOSE methodologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI'08
Pages	212-219
Number of pages	8
Volume	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2008.114
Publication status	Published - 22 Dec 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence 2008 - Dayton, United States Duration: 03 Nov 2008 → 05 Nov 2008 https://doi.org/10.1109/ictai14322.2008

Conference

Conference	20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence 2008
Abbreviated title	ICTAI 2008
Country/Territory	United States
City	Dayton
Period	03/11/2008 → 05/11/2008
Internet address	https://doi.org/10.1109/ictai14322.2008

Keywords

Deadlock detection
Multi-agent system
Software testing
UML

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science Applications

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Mani, N, Garousi, V & Far, BH 2008, A UML-based conversion tool for monitoring and testing multi-agent systems. in Proceedings - 20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI'08. vol. 1, 4669691, pp. 212-219, 20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence 2008, Dayton, Ohio, United States, 03/11/2008. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2008.114

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