SODA: societies and infrastructures in the analysis and design of agent-based systems

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Omicini

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The notion of society should play a central role in agent-oriented software engineering as a first-class abstraction around which complex systems can be designed and built as multi-agent systems. We argue that an effective agentoriented methodology should account for inter-agent aspects by providing engineers with specific abstractions and tools for the analysis and design of agent societies and agent environments. In this paper, we outline the SODA agent-oriented methodology for the analysis and design of Internet-based systems. Based on the core notion of task, SODA promotes the separation of individual and social issues, and focuses on the social aspects of agent-oriented software engineering. In particular, SODA allow the agent environment to be explicitly modelled and mapped onto suitably-defined agent infrastructures.