Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Coordination languages and their significance
Communications of the ACM
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Programming stigmergic coordination with the TOTA middleware
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Formal ReSpecT in the A&A Perspective
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Method fragments for agent design methodologies: from standardisation to research
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Artifacts in the A&A meta-model for multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Software Engineering
Process models for agent-based development
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
CArtAgO: a framework for prototyping artifact-based environments in MAS
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Bridging the gap between agent-oriented design and implementation using MDA
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Model-driven architecture for agent-based systems
FAABS'04 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
O-MaSE: a customisable approach to designing and building complex, adaptive multi-agent systems
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
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In the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MASs), methodologies and infrastructures have developed in the last years along two opposite paths: while Agent-Oriented methodologies have essentially undergone a top-down evolution, MAS infrastructures have mostly followed a bottom-up path, producing a conceptual gap between methodologies and the available agent infrastructures. This paper aims at defining a method for filling such a gap, based on Situational Method Engineering (SME) and SPEM (Software Process Engineering Meta-model). After highlighting the lack of sufficient research and understanding about the role of the infrastructures in the software engineering process, we show that infrastructures, like methodologies, have processes behind them, and propose a method based on the integration of the processes underpinning both methodologies and infrastructures. Then, we validate such an approach by showing how the process of the SODA methodology can be integrated with the process of the TuCSoN infrastructure using SME and SPEM.