INGENIAS is an agent oriented software engineering methodology for Multi-Agent Systems development. It combines agent research results with concepts and methods established in MESSAGE/UML. The result is a development process in the line of conventional software engineering processes, like object oriented software development paradigm or structured paradigm. INGENIAS defines deliverables and def...

INGENIAS is a methodology for the development of multi-agent systems. INGENIAS support tools has recently incorporated a plug-in called the MTGenerator, which has been developed to facilitate the creation of model transformations by-example from INGENIAS models. The MTGenerator tool overcomes some of the limitations of similar tools about the creation of many-to-many transformation rules. This ...

INGENIAS provides a notation for modeling multi-agent systems (MAS) and a well-defined collection of activities to guide the development process of an MAS in the tasks of analysis, design, verification, and code generation, supported by an integrated set of tools—the INGENIAS Development Kit (IDK). These tools, as well as the INGENIAS notation, are based on five meta-models that define the diff...

VigilAgent is a methodology for the development of agent-oriented monitoring applications that uses agents as the key abstraction elements of the involved models. It has not been developed from scratch, but it reuses fragments from Prometheus andion elements of the involved models. It has not been developed from scratch, but it reuses fragments from Prometheus and INGENIAS methodologies for mod...

The literature proposes some characteristics that methodologies for the development of agent oriented systems should provide. They should assist in all the phases of the development process of an agent oriented system; for example, by providing models and views for the different phases of analysis and design, and tools to support the methodology. INGENIAS is an agent oriented methodology that c...

A great number of methodologies to develop MAS systems have been proposed in the last few years. But, a perfect methodology that satisfies all the developer necessities cannot be found. This is the reason why different methodologies are studied to create a new one. In this article, a methodology that includes all steps from the capture of requirements to the implementation and deployment of an ...

Currently there is a diversity of tools for agent-based simulation, which can be applied to the understanding of social phenomena. Describing this kind of phenomena with a visual language can facilitate the use of these tools by users who are not necessarily experts in computer programming, but in social sciences. With this purpose, we propose to define such visual language, which is based on w...

Overworking behaviors appear in multi-agent systems communication quite often. This occurs when an agent receives many messages in a short period of time. As the agent pays attention to the large amount of messages it worsens its performance, causing the system’s performance to worsen as well. The reasons for this behaviors are varied and depend on the nature of the messages: an agent that send...

In a multi-agent system, the organization determines the architecture of the whole system, and the way and policies for agent collaboration and interactions. Although this is a key element in the development process of this kind of systems, existing efforts in modeling organizations have not yet been integrated into common bodies of knowledge, neither into existing standards. This paper provide...