This article discusses the viability of the AUML and UML languages employment, from the latter’s version 2.0 on, in the multiagent systems project. In this article some works that have used UML for the project of systems that involved agents, as well as some AOSE (Agent Oriented Software Engineering) methodologies that use in some way UML or AUML (or both), are presented. Immediately afterwards...

Recently, two advances in agent-oriented software engineering have had a significant impact: the identification of interaction and coordination as the central focus of multiagent systems design and the realization that the multiagent organization is distinct from the agents that populate the system. This paper presents detailed guidance on how to integrate organizational rules into existing mul...

A context-aware personal agent (CPA) adapts to the changing contexts of its user. Platys is an agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) framework that supports the development and execution of CPAs. Specifically, the framework (1) facilitates modeling a CPA via cognitive constructs, simplifying development, and (2) delegates the concerns of context elicitation (from end users) and acquisition...

Agents are important software abstractions for distributed problem solving and autonomous, proactive behavior. They have been used in many applications, including manufacturing, enterprise integration, network management, and advanced user interfaces for worldwide web applications. As agent systems become more prevalent, the need arises for software engineering methodologies. The relationships ...

AbstrAct The desire to flexibly customize software, manage it efficiently, and empower it with intelligence has driven research and development-related efforts toward intelligent agents. The benefits in terms of rapid delivery, reduced costs, and enhanced productivity can be realized in the areas of systems and software engineering with the proliferation of this technology. Intelligent agents r...

The development of complex, distributed applications in heterogenous environments is an important challenge of computer science. Petri nets offer a good combination of intuitive modeling and clear semantics for the modeling and implementation of distributed, concurrent applications. To manage net models for large-scale systems however, it is important to find a suitable structuring of the model...

This paper presents 2 software engineering approaches for design of multi-agent systems. The goal of the paper is to evaluate the usefulness of such methodologies regarding agent systems design. For each method, the methodology map is described, together with its most important features. We conclude that software engineering approaches are worth for consideration when moving the agent system in...

The agent-oriented software engineering methodology Tropos offers a structured development process and supporting tools for developing complex, distributed systems. The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to illustrate the use of Tropos to develop a Multi-Agent System, performing basic analysis and design activities, code generation and testing, with the support of a set of tools; second...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word methodology as ‘the branch of knowledge that deals with method generally or with the methods of a particular discipline or field of study’. Subsequently, the word methodolgy also refers to ‘the study of the suitability of the techniques employed in it’. For software development methodology, the discipline or the field of study is, of course, softwa...