Analysis and design of physical and social contexts in multi-agent systems using UML

KleinFlorian,; GieseHolger,

doi:10.1145/1082983.1082969

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“…Other approaches exist that focus on the detection of emergent behavior such as Malakuti. 20 Another area of research also addresses the verification of such systems but uses simulation to analyze the collaborative CPS network (e.g., Bauer et al and Klein and Giese 21,22 ). A further research field is the adaption of techniques from the area of software product lines and variant intensive systems.…”

Section: Validation Of Collaborative Cps Networkmentioning

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Model inspections in the engineering of collaborative cyber‐physical systems with instance‐level review diagrams

Daun

Brings

Weyer

2021

J Software Evolu Process

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Model inspections are important to ensure high‐quality software and to satisfy legal obligations in model‐based engineering processes. As model‐based specifications are typically documented on type‐level, errors concerning the interactions between multiple system instances can go unnoticed. For collaborative cyber‐physical systems (CPS), a plethora of possible instance‐level configurations need to be taken into account. Therefore, we propose the definition of instance‐level review diagrams that show representative interactions of instance‐level configurations that help detect defects in the system specification. To evaluate the approach, we conducted a controlled experiment whose results indicate that instance‐level review diagrams have—compared with type‐level diagrams—important positive effects on reviewing processes for behavioral specifications of CPS. Specifically, the experiment provides empirical evidence that instance‐level review diagrams are significantly more expressive and effective than type‐level diagrams.

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Section: Validation Of Collaborative Cps Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Model inspections in the engineering of collaborative cyber‐physical systems with instance‐level review diagrams

Daun

Brings

Weyer

2021

J Software Evolu Process

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A Wizard‐of‐Oz platform for embodied conversational agents

Brown¹,

Barrett

2006

Computer Animation & Virtual

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A low-cost prototyping environment for experimenting with embodied conversational agents is discussed. The platform allows modeling and experimenting with different agent constructs and protocols prior to significant investment in the construction of the agent environment. Problems in the design of such a platform include the substantial number of agent controls needed and the flexibility required to represent the constructs of different theories, protocols and target environments as they are introduced and developed. These problems are addressed by augmenting a movie clip manager with a general drawing palette as a design tool. The result is a prototyping environment which simulates multiple agents on a desktop while allowing arbitrary notational conventions. The current version does not render multiple agents in a shared virtual environment, but the protocol-based architecture is amenable to such extensions. In the meantime, valuable results regarding the social character of multiple agent interaction can be explored with the existing tool.

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Collaborating Multiple System Instances of Smart Cyber-physical Systems: A Problem Situation, Solution Idea, and Remaining Research Challenges

Daun

Brings

Bandyszak

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems

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In the engineering of smart cyber-physical systems (CPS), emphasis is given to dynamic networks of CPS collaborating to fulfill an overall purpose. In many cases, multiple instances of the same system type must collaborate at runtime to achieve the overall purpose. As the development process of CPS typically focuses on system specifications on the type level, unsafe behavior resulting from the interplay of multiple system instances of the same system type can easily remain undetected. This paper reports on the findings we gained from an industrial case study in the avionic industry regarding the specific problem of unsafe behavior originating from the collaboration of multiple system instances of the same system type. Additionally, we sketch a general solution idea, which we have evaluated within the case study, and discuss remaining research challenges.Index Terms-System instances, Instance modeling, Modelbased engineering, Cyber physical systems.

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Analysis and design of physical and social contexts in multi-agent systems using UML

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Model inspections in the engineering of collaborative cyber‐physical systems with instance‐level review diagrams

Model inspections in the engineering of collaborative cyber‐physical systems with instance‐level review diagrams

A Wizard‐of‐Oz platform for embodied conversational agents

Collaborating Multiple System Instances of Smart Cyber-physical Systems: A Problem Situation, Solution Idea, and Remaining Research Challenges

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