[Modeling] Modeling an Agent Class- register your opinion
James Odell
email@jamesodell.com
Sat, 21 Jun 2003 13:58:15 -0400
On 6/20/03 5:45 AM, "f.tolman" indited:
> What is wrong with the traditional UML association between the class Person
> and the class Department, with the role-attributes Employee (at the Person
> side) and Employs (at the Department side)?
Personally, this is one constraint I still use for agent-based modeling.
For example, there might be a constraint that for a Department-Employee
association every Department must have one or more Employees. (In other
words, employee-less departments are not permitted.) This applies whether I
am talking objects or agents. In modal terms, it is a permission, not an
obligation.
-Jim