Software requirements: objects, functions, and states
Software requirements: objects, functions, and states
Software engineering (5th ed.)
Software engineering (5th ed.)
A methodology and modelling technique for systems of BDI agents
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A methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design
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A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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Coordinating agents by role based social constraints and conversation plans
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Issues in agent-oriented software engineering
First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
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Re-use of interaction protocols for agent-based control applications
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IODA: an interaction-oriented approach for multi-agent based simulations
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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We propose a preliminary methodology for agent-oriented software engineering based on the idea of agent interaction analysis. This approach uses interactions between undetermined agents as the primary component of analysis and design. Agents as a basis for software engineering are useful because they provide a powerful and intuitive abstraction which can increase the comprehensiblity of a complex design. The paper describes a process by which the designer can derive the interactions that can occur in a system satisfying the given requirements and use them to design the structure of an agent-based system, including the identification of the agents themselves. We suggest that this approach has the flexibility necessary to provide agent-oriented designs for open and complex applications, and has value for future maintenance and extension of these systems.