Extending Gaia with agent design and iterative development

  • Authors:
  • Jorge Gonzalez-Palacios;Michael Luck

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK;Department of Computer Science, King's College London, Strand, London, UK

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

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Abstract

Agent-oriented methodologies are an important means for constructingagent-based systems in a controlled repeatable form. However, agent-oriented methodologies have not received much acceptance in industrial environments,which can be partially explained by drawbacks in current agent-oriented methodologies, mainly in terms of applicability and comprehensiveness. Specifically,Gaia, one of the most cited methodologies, does not consider agent design, norexhibits an agile methodological process. On the other hand, Gaia is based onorganisational abstractions (which makes it suitable to cope with the design ofcomplex systems) and possesses a simple methodological process whose neutralitymakes it suitable for extensions. In this paper, we extend Gaia in two directions:we incorporate an agent design phase, and we enhance the methodologicalprocess with the use of iterations.