Key components of agent-based development
Amir Zeid · 2002
In recent years, agent-based systems have received considerable attention in both academia and industry. The agent-oriented paradigm can be considered a natural extension to the object-oriented (OO) paradigm. In spite of the fact that there are many OO analysis and design methods, there is very little work reported on design and analysis of agent-based systems. Agents differ from objects in many issues which requires special modeling elements. In this paper, we propose a software engineering process for agent-based systems based on existing object-oriented software engineering concepts. We extend the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to model agents (static and mobile).