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....Research is still ongoing as to its application to real size problems. Use cases were utilized for the analysis of interactions in [33] More recently, UCMs have also been used to tackle the problems of feature interactions and resolution of conflicts in multi agent systems ( 11] 12] 13][14][15] 16] The UCM notation helps designers with the visualization of Use Case Maps for the Design and the Validation of Interaction Free Telephony Features 12 November, 1998 23:12 Methodology p. 2 problematic situations and their avoidance at a high level of abstraction. An approach where UCMs ....

Buhr, R.J.A., Elammari, M., Gray, T., and Mankovski, S. (1998) "Applying Use Case Maps to Multi-agent Systems: A Feature Interaction Example", Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'98), Hawaii, January 1998. http://www.sce.carleton.ca/ftp/pub/UseCaseMaps/hiccs98.pdf

....study used to illustrate our design process. 3 3.0 Case Study: An Intranet Telephony Application We applied our approach to an intranet telephony application which is being developed at Mitel Corporation. The application combines voice data and interactive noninteractive communications [5] 6][8]. Users of this application can communicate with each other using voice or data. The mode of communication can be interactive or noninteractive. The interactive mode requires that at least two users be active. An obvious example of this is when two users are talking to each other. The ....

R.J.A. Buhr, M. Elammari, T. Gray, S. Mankovski, Applying Use Case Maps to Multi-agent Systems: A Feature Interaction Example, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'98), Hawaii, January 1998.

....behaviour and system self modification in a coherent way, in a single high level visual notation. A companion HICSS 98 paper titled Applying Use Case Maps to Multi agent Systems: A Feature Interaction Example illustrates the approach. 1. Introduction This paper and a companion paper [7] come out of a research project on high level design and prototyping of agent systems [5] This project is applying use case maps (UCMs) 8] 9] 10] 11] 12] 13] as part of a new approach to agent systems. This paper makes a new contribution to both UCMs and agents by developing a concept of ....

....models. The contribution is to a new way of describing multiagents systems to get a better handle on understanding and designing them as systems, not to new ways of implementing agents. This paper concentrates on principles illustrated with very simple examples, leaving more realistic examples to [7]. A report [8] describes a multimedia communications example that was included, in part, in the initial version of this paper but had to be removed from this final version for lack of space. Another report [6] explains more than we have space for here about the application of UCMs to large, ....

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....may then come as a surprise. Ways are needed of making feature interaction problems more visible to software developers and of enabling software solutions to flow from high level descriptions. In our work, the visibility problem is addressed with a technique called Use Case Maps (UCMs) 3] 4] 6][7]. UCMs provide system wide path structures that enable people to get a global understanding of large scale dynamic situations. Feature interactions are seen visually in the UCMs and can be resolved by design at the UCM level. This approach arises from a view that feature interaction is an inherent ....

R.J.A. Buhr, M. Elammari, T. Gray, S. Mankovski, Applying Use Case Maps to Multi-agent Systems: A Feature Interaction Example, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'98), Hawaii, January 98. http://www.sce.carleton.ca/ftp/pub/UseCaseMaps/hiccs98.pdf

....design details of individual agents. This way must be both easily understood by telecom software designers and easily related to BDI style solutions for individual agents. In the research described here, we satisfy these requirements with a technique called Use Case Maps (UCMs) 4] 5] 6] 7] 8][9]. We are developing a high level design and prototyping environment with UCMs at the top end, a rule based prototyping environment connected to a telephone system simulator at the bottom end, and BDI style models in the middle [10] For clarity of exposition to an audience not familiar with UCMs, ....

R.J.A. Buhr, M. Elammari, T. Gray, S. Mankovski, Applying Use Case Maps to Multi-agent Systems: A Feature Interaction Example, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'98), Hawaii, January 98. http://www.sce.carleton.ca/ftp/pub/UseCaseMaps/hiccs98.ps

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R. Buhr, M. Elammari, T. Gray, and S.Mankovski, "Applying Use Case Maps to Multi-agent Systems: A Feature Interaction Example", Proc. HICSS'98), IEEE, 1998.

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