Engineering and verifying agent-oriented requirements augmented by business constraints with $${\mathcal{B}}$$-Tropos

  • Authors:
  • Marco Montali;Paolo Torroni;Nicola Zannone;Paola Mello;Volha Bryl

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;FBK-IRST, Povo, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose $${\mathcal{B}}$$ -Tropos as a modeling framework to support agent-oriented systems engineering, from high-level requirements elicitation down to execution-level tasks. In particular, we show how $${\mathcal{B}}$$ -Tropos extends the Tropos methodology by means of declarative business constraints, inspired by the ConDec graphical language. We demonstrate the functioning of $${\mathcal{B}}$$ -Tropos using a running example inspired by a real-world industrial scenario, and we describe how $${\mathcal{B}}$$ -Tropos models can be automatically formalized in computational logic, discussing formal properties of the resulting framework and its verification capabilities.