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A Tool for Visualizing ARTIS Agents Specification

by Toufik MARIR, Farid MOKHATI, Zina MECIBAH
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 34 - Number 9
Year of Publication: 2011
Authors: Toufik MARIR, Farid MOKHATI, Zina MECIBAH
10.5120/4052-5692

Toufik MARIR, Farid MOKHATI, Zina MECIBAH . A Tool for Visualizing ARTIS Agents Specification. International Journal of Computer Applications. 34, 9 ( November 2011), 50-57. DOI=10.5120/4052-5692

@article{ 10.5120/4052-5692,
author = { Toufik MARIR, Farid MOKHATI, Zina MECIBAH },
title = { A Tool for Visualizing ARTIS Agents Specification },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { November 2011 },
volume = { 34 },
number = { 9 },
month = { November },
year = { 2011 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 50-57 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume34/number9/4142-5692/ },
doi = { 10.5120/4052-5692 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Farid MOKHATI
%A Zina MECIBAH
%T A Tool for Visualizing ARTIS Agents Specification
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
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%V 34
%N 9
%P 50-57
%D 2011
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Real-time agent based systems are characterized by their com-plexity in which several skills are required in all development process stages. Specially, the communication between the dif-ferent development groups is a vital task. The graphical specifi-cations play an interesting role in understanding system aspects. In this paper we propose the transformation of XML based AR-TIS agent specifications to graphical representations. Using our approach we can visualize the ARTIS agent specifications in informal graphical representation designed for all kinds of users or in based object UML diagram designed for specialist users. Moreover, a tool is developed to support the visualization process.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Real Time Agents ARTIS Model MAS Understanding Object UML Diagram XML