Agent-Oriented Software Modeling with UML Approach
Sooyong Park, Jintae Kim, Seung-Yun Lee · 2000
iewof Intra agent model. Each goal has the hierarchy so that they can be divided by several sub-goals. These goals can bemap ed into the agents and therelationship among agents accord with that in the goal-hierarchy diagram. This connection can show how agents coop erate with one another. 3.3.2 Belief Model Belief is considered to be data that an agent already p ossesses. t contains information about the environment and the agent itself. This data should beup dated if necessary. This information is used to establish the agent's knowledge base, or Ontology, which can be built using Ontolingua [14] or K F (Knowledge nterchange Format) [15]. The rules that determine what kind of information goes into di#erent ontologies are listed below. 1. Ontology that can be established in the early stage . nformation about Protocol or ACL (Agent Communication Language) for the agent's communication can be established as Ontology in the early stage. 2. Ontology that needs toup date cont...