Agent-Oriented Software Engineering is currently deeply influenced by the techniques and concepts of Model-Driven Development. In this context, the use of automated transformations to support software processes is not explored enough to reach maturity. Models are supposed to be created following the activities of a process, but this coupling currently depends on the engineer that does it. This ...

The development of software systems is a complex task that requires support techniques to guide the process and solve inconsistencies in its products. In the agent paradigm, the use of social and intentional abstractions facilitates the application of these techniques in theories for the analysis of human societies, such as the Activity Theory. The Activity Theory proposes patterns that appear ...

The specification of a Multi-Agent System (MAS) involves the identification of a large number of entities and their relationships. This is a non-trivial task that requires managing different views of the system. Many problems concerning this issue originates in the presence of contradictory goals and tasks, inconsistencies, and unexpected behaviours. Such troublesome configurations should be de...

Usually people make a visual representation of what they read. This is a fact inherent to their nature. Many efforts have been done in the last years to try to find a direct method to translate a text wrote on a natural language to a graphical representation. Some solutions try to represent mainly a static scene with the objects appearing in the text. There are not so many approaches that try t...

In the operation management environment, the process of production scheduling is responsible for detailing operating activities by indicating a set of methods and tools that are conditioned, among other restrictions, by the tactical decisions that are made in the production planning environment. Although, theoretically, a bi-directional flow of information should exist among both environments o...

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Many Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) methodologies incorporate a modeldriven approach. Model Driven Engineering is based on three main ideas: models are the “first-class citizens”, meta-models define modelling languages that are used to specify models and models are transformed during the development. However, model transformation is still a challenging issue in MAS. At first, MAS designers are not n...

This paper explain how to construct a tool which aides in the modeling of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodology processes. FIPA Methodology Technical Committee encourages the definition of software engineering process models for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) methodologies. In order to create these models, FIPA recommends the use of Software Process Engineering metamodel (SPEM) defi...

Software engineers have derived a progressively better understanding of the complexity characteristics in software. It is now widely recognised that interaction is probably the most important single characteristic of complex software. Agent-based computing can be considered as a new general purpose paradigm for software development, which tends to radically influence the way a software system i...

An important issue in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is the massive deployment of intelligent agents embedded in the environment which are adaptive to the users’ profiles, preferences and needs. This is why, the use of agent-oriented methodologies and frameworks is almost mandatory to easily develop software for AmI scenarios. ICARO is a software framework that promotes the use of different organiz...