A laboratory for teaching object oriented thinking
OOPSLA '89 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
SODA: societies and infrastructures in the analysis and design of agent-based systems
First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
An overview of the multiagent systems engineering methodology
First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
A survey of object-oriented methodologies
Proceedings of the conference on TRI-Ada '95: Ada's role in global markets: solutions for a changing complex world
Object-Process Methodology: A Holistic Systems Paradigm
Object-Process Methodology: A Holistic Systems Paradigm
The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Multiagent System Engineering: The Coordination Viewpoint
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
Agent Oriented Analysis Using Message/UML
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
Single-model method for specifying multi-agent systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: First International Workshop, AOSE 2000 Limerick, Ireland, June 10, 2000 Revised Papers
Prometheus: a methodology for developing intelligent agents
AOSE'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering III
SPEM on test: the SODA case study
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
From AO Methodologies to MAS Infrastructures: The SODA Case Study
Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII
Environment in agent-oriented software engineering methodologies
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Engineering Environments in Multiagent Systems
RBAC-MAS and SODA: Experimenting RBAC in AOSE
Engineering Societies in the Agents World IX
Coordination artifacts as first-class abstractions for MAS engineering: state of the research
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
A model-based method for system reliability analysis
Proceedings of the 2012 Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation - DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium
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Complex systems call for a hierarchical description. Analogously, the engineering of non-trivial MASs (multiagent systems) requires principles and mechanisms for a multi-layered description, which could be used by MAS designers to provide different levels of abstraction over MASs. In this paper, we first advocate the need for zooming mechanisms, promoting a coherent and consistent multi-layered view of agent systems. After surveying the best-known AOSE methodologies, we focus on the scaling mechanisms of the OPM process-oriented methodology. Then, by adopting SODA as our reference, we show how an AOSE methodology can be enhanced with simple yet expressive zooming mechanisms. Finally, we present a simple case study where the enhanced agent-oriented methodology (SODA +zoom) is exploited and put to the test.