Re: UML

[Miles Parker]

James Odell has an interesting paper on this at
http://www.jamesodell.com/publications.html.

Jim has been at a number of Swarmish gatherings, and in fact gave a
presentation on using UML at Swarmfest 98, I think. His work is mostly
related to MAS stuff, but it definitely has applicability. I think UML type
notation has a definite place in agent-modeling, though for now it probably
makes the most sense as tool for understanding modeling frameworks rather
than realizations. As Marcus, said, there are are some limitations for
modeling the kinds of things we care about, but certainly great
possibilities as well. Certainly something I'm interested in exploring
further.

Miles T. Parker
Software Engineer
Washington, D.C.
mailto:address@hidden  day 202.797.6136  eve. 301.608.3758

> From: Pietro Terna <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:58:44 +0200
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: UML
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> at CEF2000 (http://enginy.upf.es/SCE/index2.html) in Barcelona, from where
> I'm writing, we have two sessions about Swarm models, organized by
> Francesco Luna.
> 
> In the first one, who has been very nice, with a methodogical paper of
> Charlotte Bruun (her home page is http://www.socsci.auc.dk/~cbruun/) a
> question has been "why do not use UML formalism in Swarm models".
> 
> (UML -> http://www.rational.com/uml/index.jtmpl).
> 
> In my opinion UML is a good tool to describe models as software structures
> (in an enterprise environment, for example); I'm not sure that this kind of
> formalism could be completely usefule where we have to develop, with our
> simulation models) not a 'world' but 'a metaphor of a world'.
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> Yours, Pietro
> 
> 
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