Petri nets: an introduction
Evaluation of modeling techniques for agent-based systems
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Flexible protocol specification and execution: applying event calculus planning using commitments
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Representing and executing protocols as joint actions
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Direct execution of team specifications in STAPLE
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Developing an Automated Distributed Meeting Scheduler
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Developing Intelligent Agent Systems: A Practical Guide
Developing Intelligent Agent Systems: A Practical Guide
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
A Pragmatic Approach to Build Conversation Protocols Using Social Commitments
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
STAPLE: An Agent Programming Language Based on the Joint Intention Theory
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Tool Support for Agent Development using the Prometheus Methodology
QSIC '05 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Quality Software
Making a strong business case for multiagent technology
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Designing Commitment-Based Agent Interactions
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
The Agent Modeling Language - AML: A Comprehensive Approach to Modeling Multi-Agent Systems (Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing)
The Agents Are All Busy Doing Stuff!
IEEE Intelligent Systems
A distributed multi-agent meeting scheduler
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Enacting protocols by commitment concession
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Defining syntax and providing tool support for Agent UML using a textual notation
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
The goal-oriented design of agent systems: a refinement of Prometheus and its evaluation
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Using three AOSE toolkits to develop a sample design
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Amoeba: A methodology for modeling and evolving cross-organizational business processes
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Agent-based conference management: a case study in SODA
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Adding debugging support to the Prometheus methodology
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Evaluating a model driven development toolkit for domain experts to modify agent based systems
AOSE'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering VII
The knowledge market: agent-mediated knowledge sharing
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
Comparing goal modelling languages: an experiment
REFSQ'07 Proceedings of the 13th international working conference on Requirements engineering: foundation for software quality
O-MaSE: a customizable approach to developing multiagent development processes
AOSE'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering VIII
Designing agent systems: state of the practice
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
O-MaSE: a customisable approach to designing and building complex, adaptive multi-agent systems
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Scenarios for system requirements traceability and testing
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Kokomo: an empirically evaluated methodology for affective applications
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Commitments with regulations: reasoning about safety and control in REGULA
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
An agent-oriented approach to change propagation in software maintenance
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A case for new directions in agent-oriented software engineering
AOSE'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering
Agent-based modeling and simulation of an autonomic manufacturing execution system
Computers in Industry
Representing agent interaction protocols with agent UML
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
An empirical evaluation of the i* framework in a model-based software generation environment
CAiSE'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
CMRadar: a personal assistant agent for calendar management
AOIS'04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems II
Improving flexibility and robustness in agent interactions: extending prometheus with hermes
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
Hermes: designing goal-oriented agent interactions
AOSE'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Hermes: implementing goal-oriented agent interactions
ProMAS'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Comma: a commitment-based business modeling methodology and its empirical evaluation
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Towards a next-generation AOSE methodology
Science of Computer Programming
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The approach to designing agent interactions that is used by mainstream agent-oriented software engineering methodologies focuses on identifying the allowable sequences of messages, and capturing this as an interaction protocol. It has been argued that this "message-centric" approach is not congruent with the ability of individual agents to persistently achieve goals in a flexible and robust manner. In this paper we report on an empirical comparison of a message-centric approach to designing interactions exemplified by Prometheus and a previously proposed alternative approach called "Hermes" that uses interaction goals. The empirical comparison had 13~participants, each of whom created a design for the agent interactions in a meeting manager system. Six of the participants used Hermes, the remaining seven used Prometheus. The designs produced were analysed to assess their performance against a range of criteria including flexibility number of pathways, the degree to which they covered the provided scenario, and robustness ability to deal with a range of pre-defined exceptional behaviours. We also measured the time taken to develop the design, and surveyed participants to assess their opinions on their designs. The comparison showed that Prometheus did indeed lead participants to develop designs that had significantly less flexibility and robustness than Hermes, and that the designs of the Hermes group did significantly better at covering the scenario. On the other hand, Prometheus was significantly faster to use. The survey responses did not display a statistically significant difference, with the exception that Prometheus users felt significantly more strongly than Hermes users that their design was easy to follow.