[Modeling] AIP and actions

[Marian Nodine]

We also took the state machine approach in InfoSleuth. There was one 
state machine per participant in the conversation, and the structure of 
the state machine was tailored to the role in the conversation. 
Transitions not only are actions, but may also include other things such 
as timeouts.

The only real issue that I have with this approach is that I think 
agents need to move to a situation where conversations are more dynamic, 
and not actually preselected from a set of protocols. Renato, I know 
that the DIVA tool links these, I was wondering how it would deal with 
something more flexible, e.g., composable conversation fragments?

-- Misty


Renato Levy wrote:

> Marc-Philippe,
>
> In our tool (DIVA) we have linked AIPs with state diagrams, activity 
> diagrams are not used. Each state diagrams represent a "machine" for 
> one role. There is way more detail to it, if you are interested.
>
>
> At 01:23 PM 8/16/2004 +0200, Marc-Philippe Huget wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I have several times the same question during AAMAS: we have AIP but 
>> what about actions associated to the AIP? How to represent them? I 
>> proposed in the first draft to decorate the AIP with actions but this 
>> is certainly too simple. I think we need to consider this question 
>> and find an answer to everybody who wants to design and **implement** 
>> AIPs.
>>
>> First idea: linking Interaction diagrams to Activity diagrams: each 
>> action in Interaction diagrams is related to a "real" implementation 
>> in activity diagrams. What's your opinion?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marc-Philippe
>>
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