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Mobility Representation of Mobile Agents using Extended UML Interaction Diagrams

확장된 UML 상호작용 다이어그램을 이용한 이동 에이전트의 이동성 표현

  • 유문성 (상지대학교 컴퓨터정보공학부)
  • Received : 2011.02.17
  • Accepted : 2011.03.03
  • Published : 2011.03.30
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Abstract

A mobile agent system is the most common software paradigm for distributed applications. A software development model to develop efficiently for these systems is needed. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a widely used software development model to develop a system for Visualizing, Specifying, Constructing, Documenting. However, UML can not describe in explicit way the necessary mobility of the mobile agent-based software systems. In this paper, the interaction diagrams of UML (sequence diagrams and communication diagrams) are extended and used to express the mobility of the mobile agents in three ways. For a case study, we applied the extended diagrams to a distributed file searching using mobile agents, and showed these diagrams can describe the mobility very well.

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