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Visual Representation of Mobile Agents - Modeling Mobility within the Prototype MAPA

Lawrence Cabac , Daniel Moldt, Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus, and Eva Müller.
Visual representation of mobile agents - modeling mobility within the prototype MAPA.
In Duvigneau and Moldt , Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Modeling of Objects, Components and Agents, MOCA'09, Hamburg, pages 7-28.

Mobile agents in dynamic and open systems are still a challenge, not only within the process of developing mobile agents but also in integrating these in multi-agent systems. Graphical modeling facilitates the development of mobile and concurrent agents within a multi-agent system. This paper picks up the approach of modeling mobility by the of use of reference nets. Hence, these are chosen as the formal basic principle, which incorporate the "nets within nets" paradigm as a suitable framework for mobility. Furthermore, this paper introduces the prototype of the framework Mapa - an architecture for multi-agent systems supporting mobility, and its visualization. The underlying formal principles are depicted by an extended household robot system. The enhancement of this case study is based upon and accompanied by Mapa. Mapa not only provides a visual representation of (mobile) agents but also a routing agent, which computes routes between set up and connected platforms. In addition, Mapa allows the use of two tools, namely MulanViewer, and Sniffer. The MulanViewer allows the user to keep track of the primary reference nets, and the Sniffer tool logs the message flow during run-time.

BibTeX

@InProceedings{Cabac+09f,
  author={Cabac, Lawrence and Moldt, Daniel and Wester-Ebbinghaus, Matthias and M{\"u}ller, Eva},
  authorplain={Cabac, Lawrence and Moldt, Daniel and Wester-Ebbinghaus, Matthias and Mueller, Eva},
  title={Visual Representation of Mobile Agents --
                  Modeling Mobility within the Prototype {MAPA}},
  abstract={Mobile agents in dynamic and open systems are still a
                  challenge, not only within the process of developing
                  mobile agents but also in integrating these in
                  multi-agent systems. Graphical modeling facilitates
                  the development of mobile and concurrent agents
                  within a multi-agent system.  This paper picks up
                  the approach of modeling mobility by the of use of
                  reference nets. Hence, these are chosen as the
                  formal basic principle, which incorporate the "nets
                  within nets" paradigm as a suitable framework for
                  mobility. Furthermore, this paper introduces the
                  prototype of the framework Mapa - an architecture
                  for multi-agent systems supporting mobility, and its
                  visualization.
                  The underlying formal principles are depicted by an
                  extended household robot system. The enhancement of
                  this case study is based upon and accompanied by
                  Mapa. Mapa not only provides a visual representation
                  of (mobile) agents but also a routing agent, which
                  computes routes between set up and connected
                  platforms. In addition, Mapa allows the use of two
                  tools, namely MulanViewer, and Sniffer. The
                  MulanViewer allows the user to keep track of the
                  primary reference nets, and the Sniffer tool logs
                  the message flow during run-time.},
  crossref={Duvigneau+-e-09},
  pages={7--28},
  year=2009
}

@Proceedings{Duvigneau+-e-09,
  editor =  {Duvigneau, Michael and Moldt, Daniel},
  title =  {Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on
                  Modeling of Objects, Components and Agents, MOCA'09,
                  Hamburg},
  booktitle =  {Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on
                  Modeling of Objects, Components and Agents, MOCA'09,
                  Hamburg},
  number =  {FBI-HH-B-290/09},
  url =   {http://epub.sub.uni-hamburg.de/informatik/volltexte/2010/149/},
  urn =   {urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-228-7-1495},
  series =  {Bericht},
  publisher =  FBIUniHHab2006,
  address =  FBIUniAdresse,
  month =  sep,
  year =  2009
}