AN AUTOMATED TOOL (IDAF) TO MANIPULATE INTERACTION DIAGRAMS AND FRAGMENTATIONS FOR MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
Chi Keen Low, Ralph Rönnquist, Tsong Yueh Chen · International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 1999
Interaction diagrams are used in multi-agent systems to graphically describe agent computation threads and communications while fragmentations are the algebraic representations of interaction diagrams. The IDAF (Interaction Diagrams And Fragmentations) tool suite has been developed based on the formalism of interaction diagrams and fragmentations. The tool suite consists of ValidatoR, FormatteR, TranslatoR, GrapheR and TesteR. This paper describes the usage of the tool suite and demonstrates it in two different multi-agent systems.