Extending AUML for interaction protocols specifying in the context of adaptive coordination of crisis management processes

Abstract

This work deals with Interaction Protocol (IP) adaptation at build time for coordination in the context of Crisis Management Processes (CMP). CMP refer to the coordination of several partners in a dynamic and unstable context. One possible way to deal with this coordination is the use of IP. In order to guarantee an efficient use of IP, we need to adapt them. In previous work, we proposed an MDA (Model Driven Architecture) framework for IP adaptation based on version and context notions. In this paper, we focus on the PIM (Platform-Independent Model) level of the proposed MDA framework. More precisely, we propose an extension of AUML (Agent UML) sequence diagram meta-model in order to specify graphically the contextualized versioned IP. We also give two examples of contextualized versioned IP specified with extended AUML. Finally, we illustrate the IP adaptation based coordination through a well-known case study « Air Crash Management Process ».