ADELFE is a methodology proposed to help and guide the designer during the development of an Adaptive Multi-Agent System (AMAS). In this paper, we propose extensions to ADELFE in order to facilitate the task of the designer and help him to detect and correct the Non Cooperative Situations that the agent may encounter during its life. Keywords-ADELFE, Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems, Simulation Bas...

This chapter introduces the ADELFE methodology, an agent-oriented methodology dedicated to the design of systems that are complex, open, and not well-specified. The need for its development is justified by the theoretical background given in the first section, which also gives an overview of the concepts on which multi-agent systems developed with ADELFE are based. A methodology is composed of ...

Adaptive software is used in situations where either the environment is unpredictable or the system is open. This paper presents a methodology named ADELFE, which is led by the Rational Unified Process (RUP) but is devoted to software engineering of adaptive multi-agent systems. ADELFE guarantees that the software is developed according to the AMAS theory. We focus this presentation on the addi...

The paper presents the ADELFE methodology which is devoted to software engineering of adaptive multi-agent systems. Adaptive software is used in situations where either the environment is unpredictable or the system is open. ADELFE guarantees that the software is developed according to the AMAS theory1. We focus the presentation on analysis and design core workflows. In the analysis phase, the ...

Complex systems are qualified by the heterogeneity of the involved actors, the large mass of data, the distribution of the manipulated information and the dynamic of the environment in which they are immersed. Designing such systems necessitate theory and methodology. This paper is situated in the AMAS theory and the ADELFE methodology. The AMAS theory (Adaptive Multi-Agent System) was proposed...

This paper presents a method named ADELFE, which is led by the Rational Unified Process but is devoted to software engineering of adaptive multi-agent systems. ADELFE guarantees that the software is developed according to the AMAS theory. We focus this presentation on the four first core workflows of the RUP. Therefore, in the preliminary requirements an agreement on what the system has to do m...

This chapter introduces the ADELFE methodology, an agent-oriented methodology dedicated to the design of systems that are complex, open, and not well-specified. The need for its development is justified by the theoretical background given in the first section, which also gives an overview of the concepts on which multi-agent systems developed with ADELFE are based. A methodology is composed of ...

ADELFE is a French acronym that means ”Toolkit for Designing Software with Emergent Functionalities” (”Atelier de DEveloppement de Logiciels à Fonctionnalité Emergente” in french). ADELFE methodology is dedicated to applications characterized by openness and the need of the system adaptation to an environment. Its main goal is to help and guide any designer during the development of an Adaptive...

The increasing use of multi-agent systems brings challenges that have not been studied yet, such as how should we adapt requirements elicitation to cope with agent properties like autonomy, sociability and proactiveness. Many methodologies were proposed adopting this new paradigm. However, most of them are still in their early phases and therefore need to be adapted. In this work ADELFE, an age...

ADELFE is a methodology devoted to software engineering of adaptive multi-agent systems. Adaptive software is used in situations in which the environment is unpredictable or the system is open; in these cases designers cannot implement a global control on the system and cannot list all situations that the system has to be faced with. To solve this problem ADELFE guarantees that the software is ...