O-MaSE: a customisable approach to designing and building complex, adaptive multi-agent systems

  • Authors:
  • Scott A. DeLoach;Juan Carlos Garcia-/Ojeda

  • Affiliations:
  • Kansas State University, 234 Nichols Hall, Manhattan, Kansas, KS 66506, USA.;School of Systems Engineering, School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Autonomous University of Bucaramanga, Street 48 &#/#/35/39-/234, Bucaramanga, Colombia

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The complexity and scope of software systems continues to grow. One approach to dealing with this growing complexity is the use of intelligent, multi-agent systems. However, due in part to its relative infancy when compared to other software paradigms, the use of multi-agent systems has yet to be used extensively in industry. One reason is the lack of industrial strength methods and tools to support multi-agent development. This paper presents the organisation-based multi-agent software engineering (O-MaSE) methodology framework, which integrates a set of concrete technologies aimed at facilitating industrial acceptance. Specifically, O-MaSE is a customisable agent-oriented methodology based on consistent, well-defined concepts supported by plug-ins to an industrial strength development environment, agentTool III.