UML models of agents in a multi-agent e-commerce system

Published 1 January 2005

Costin Bădică, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki

DOI10.1109/icebe.2005.122

Citations15

TL;DR

The aim of this paper is to introduce UML formalizations of most important agents that appear in the model system as well as presentation of its complete action diagram.

Abstract

Recently a new model agent-based e-commerce system was proposed, in which rule-based mechanism representation was combined with lightweight modular mobile agent design. Furthermore, need for agent mobility as the optimal solution to satisfy user needs was discussed. The aim of this paper is to introduce UML formalizations of most important agents that appear in the model system as well as presentation of its complete action diagram.

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