O-MaSE: a customizable approach to developing multiagent development processes

  • Authors:

  • Juan C. Garcia-Ojeda;Scott A. DeLoach;Robby Robby;Walamitien H. Oyenan;Jorge Valenzuela

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS;Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS;Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS;Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS;Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

  • Venue:
  • AOSE'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering VIII
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper describes the Organization-based MultiagentSystem Engineering (O-MaSE) Process Framework, which helps processengineers define custom multiagent systems development processes.O-MaSE builds off the MaSE methodology and is adapted from theOPEN Process Framework (OPF). OPF implements a Method Engineeringapproach to process construction. The goal of O-MaSE is to allowdesigners to create customized agent-oriented software development processes.O-MaSE consists of three basic structures: (1) a metamodel, (2)a set of methods fragments, and (3) a set of guidelines. The O-MaSE metamodel defines the key concepts needed to design and implementmultiagent systems. The method fragments are operations or tasks thatare executed to produce a set of work products, which may include models,documents, or code. The guidelines define how the method fragmentsare related to one another. The paper also shows two O-MaSE processexamples.