A preliminary comparative feature analysis of multi-agent systems development methodologies

  • Authors:

  • Quynh-Nhu Numi Tran;Graham Low;Mary-Anne Williams

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, The University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia;School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, The University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia;Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Venue:
  • AOIS'04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems II
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

While there are a considerable number of software engineering methodologies for developing multi-agent systems, not much work has been reported on the evaluation and comparison of these methodologies. This paper presents a comparative analysis of five well-known MAS-development methodologies. The comparison is based on a feature analysis framework published previously. This framework allows the comparative analysis to be made on a variety of evaluation criteria, covering both agent-oriented aspects and system engineering dimensions. The analysis also compares the methodologies in terms of their support for the steps in the development process and for agent-oriented concept modeling.