One of the most stimulating research lines in software engineering today, process engineering is currently a hot topic in agentoriented software engineering research [1–4]. A number of methodologies have been designed such as ADELFE, ASPECS, INGENIAS, MaSE, PASSI, Prometheus, SODA, Tropos,. . . , each of which with their own specificities. Sometimes, when a multi-agent application has to be des...

Considering the great number of agent-oriented methodologies that can be found in literature, and the fact that each one defines its own concepts and system structure, one of the main challenges in AgentOriented Software Engineering research is how to make these methodologies interoperable. By defining in a non ambiguous way concepts used in a specific domain, meta-modelling may represent a ste...

Agent-based simulation is being recognized as a useful tool for the study of social systems. It is based on the idea that agents can be used as a good abstraction of members of a society, and by simulating their interactions, observe the emergent behavior. Usually, agent-based models for socialion of members of a society, and by simulating their interactions, observe the emergent behavior. Usua...

Although there are many methodologies for the development of multi-agent systems, these are scarcely applied for agent-based simulation. The different activities for the creation of an agent based model and its simulation for the study of a social system, which include abstraction, design, approximation and coding, are usually performed in a monolithic way. Besides, when several roles take part...

1 Introduction GORMAS (Guidelines for ORganizational Multi-Agent Systems) defines a set of activities for the analysis and design of Virtual Organizations, including the design of their organizational structure and their dynamics. With this method, all services offered and required by the Virtual Organization are clearly defined, as well as its internal structure and the norms that govern its b...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide powerful modelling concepts for representing real-world applications with an appropriate degree of complexity and dynamics [1]. Several academic and industrial experiences have already shown that the use of MAS offers advantages in many different areas such as manufacturing processes, e-Commerce, and network management. Since MAS in such contexts need to be tes...

ions for conceptual and computational modeling. Thus, the developers often require the necessary acquisition of new skills to understand and design with the MAS methodologies. As a consequence, the creation of applications is very hard and difficult for the MAS developer, because there is no agreement about a common group of components that can be used across different MAS methodologies and pla...

World Wide Web is the largest database in the Universe which is mostly understandable by human users and not by machines. It lacks the existence of a semantic structure which maintains interdependency of its components. Presently, search on web is keyword based i.e., information is retrieved on the basis of text search of all available matching URL’s / hyperlinks. This may result in the present...