Goal-directed requirements acquisition
6IWSSD Selected Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
On agent-based software engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Towards requirements-driven information systems engineering: the Tropos project
Information Systems - The 13th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*01)
A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
An Algebraic Framework for Merging Incomplete and Inconsistent Views
RE '05 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering
Multi-Agent Architectures as Organizational Structures
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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In today's ever-transforming business environment, information systems need to evolve in concert with changes in their organizational settings. In order to help system analysts conceptualize the co-evolution of organizations and information systems, we adopt an agent-oriented perspective to develop the Tropos Evolution Modeling Process for Organizations (TEMPO). Specifically, inspired by Kauffman's NKC model, we introduce the concept of goal interface into the traditional agent-oriented Tropos methodology; within this interface, evolution is conceptualized as a negotiation process between agents. TEMPO is illustrated with a case study that demonstrates how to evolve a retail website under new European e-commerce legislation. TEMPO is also evaluated with a small behavioral experiment, which offers additional evidence on the usefulness of the approach.