Developing multi-agent systems with a FIPA-compliant agent framework
Software—Practice & Experience
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
MAAMAW '99 Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: MultiAgent System Engineering
The AMAS theory for complex problem solving based on self-organizing cooperative agents
WETICE '03 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Information and Software Technology
A multi-agent based implementation of a Delphi process
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
Model Driven Engineering for Designing Adaptive Multi-Agents Systems
Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An adaptive security model using agent-oriented MDA
Information and Software Technology
Using and Extending the SPEM Specifications to Represent Agent Oriented Methodologies
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX
Methodology Fragments Definition in SPEM for Designing Adaptive Methodology: A First Step
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX
INGENIAS Development Process Assisted with Chains of Transformations
IWANN '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks: Part I: Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence
UML 2.0 and agents: how to build agent-based systems with the new UML standard
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Process models for agent-based development
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
ADELFE: a methodology for adaptive multi-agent systems engineering
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Agent oriented software engineering with INGENIAS
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
Model-driven engineering techniques for the development of multi-agent systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Evaluating the feasibility of method engineering for the creation of agent-oriented methodologies
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Model transformation by example
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Changing attitudes towards the generation of architectural models
Journal of Systems and Software
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Satellite Events at the MoDELS
Model driven development of multi-agent systems
ECMDA-FA'06 Proceedings of the Second European conference on Model Driven Architecture: foundations and Applications
Composition of a new process to meet agile needs using method engineering
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III
Automating model transformations in agent-oriented modelling
AOSE'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
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The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) Methodology Technical Committee recommends the method engineering approach for Multi-agent System (MAS) development. This approach consists in defining method fragments for agent-oriented software engineering, and then developers combine these fragments to define customized development processes. In this line of research, the contribution of this paper is a collection of novel method fragments that are assisted with model transformations, in order to allow engineers to better develop MASs in an automated way. Some of these fragments also include explicit advices for incorporating artificial intelligence in the development. In the experiments, two processes have been composed with these method fragments for two different agent-oriented methodologies (i.e. Ingenias and Adelfe). This paper shows how these processes are respectively used to develop two known MASs (i.e. Delphi MAS and Timetable MAS). Furthermore, the presented approach is evaluated with 24 developers that were randomly divided into two groups. Each developer designed a MAS satisfying the same common requirements. One group applied the current approach, while the other group did not. The results show that this approach reduces the 63.3% of the designing time in average forMASs.