Comparing Agile Processes for Agent Oriented Software Engineering

Multi-agent Systems are at the moment an important new paradigm in software development. Several methodologies have been proposed for developing systems within this approach. Also new agile processes have been proposed to be combined with the meta-models of such methodologies. This paper shows how the use of one of those Agent Oriented methodologies following the Scrum process produces improvements in the time consumed in the development and also in learning time. This results show that Scrum approach may allow the use of smaller groups of development. Keywords-Multi-agent Systems; Development Process; SCRUM; Agile process,; Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE); INGENIAS methodology