In the past, research on agent-oriented software engineering had been widely lacking touch with the world of industrial software development. Recently, a cooperation has been established between the Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and the Object Management Group (OMG) aiming to increase acceptance of agent technology in industry by relating to de facto standards (object-oriente...

During the last decades intelligent agents integrated in multi-agent systems are accepted as a suitable technology to implement mechanisms of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), so facilitating ITS development. Still, no adequate methodological support is available for agent based ITS development. Regardless of the fact that general agent-oriented software engineering methodologies are the most...

In this paper we discuss how to combine the method content from PosoMAS, the Process for open, self-organising Multi-Agent Systems, with the agile iterative-incremental life cycle of Scrum. The result is an agile software engineering methodology tailored to open self-organising systems. We show how the methodology has been applied in a development project and discuss the lessons learned. Finall...

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 improvem...

The field of Software Product Lines (SPL) emphasizes building a family of software products from which concrete products can be derived rapidly. This helps to reduce time-to-market, costs, etc., and can result in improved software quality and safety. Current Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies are concerned with developing a single Multiagent System. The main contribution o...

In the past, research on agent-oriented software engineering had been widely lacking touch with the world of industrial software development. Recently, a cooperation has been established between the Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and the Object Management Group (OMG) aiming to increase acceptance of agent technology in industry by relating to de facto standards (object-oriente...

This approach aims at addressing crucial issues in complex distributed software such as capability of evolving and adaptivity. Within the area of goaloriented software requirements engineering, we propose the use of goal models at different abstraction levels in engineering a Multi-Agent System (MAS), namely, not only at design time, but also as a part of the agent knowledge and choice strategy...

Building high quality, industrial-strength software is difficult. Indeed, it has been argued that developing such software in domains like telecommunications, industrial control and business process management represents one of the most complex construction tasks humans undertake. Against this background, a wide range of software engineering paradigms have been devised. Each successive developm...

Agent oriented software engineering (AOSE) proposes the design of distributed software systems as collections of autonomous and pro-active actors, so-called agents. Since software applications results from agent interplay in multi-agent systems (MASs), this design approach facilitates the construction of software applications that exhibit self-organizing and emergent dynamics. In this chapter, ...