Artificial Intelligence
How to build Shlaer-Mellor object models
How to build Shlaer-Mellor object models
A methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special issue: papers from the international conference on very large data bases: September 22–24, 1975, Framingham, MA
Information, Systems and Information Systems: Making Sense of the Field
Information, Systems and Information Systems: Making Sense of the Field
Integrating Soft Systems and Object-Oriented Analysis
ICRE '96 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE '96)
Soft Systems and Use-Case Modelling: Mutually Supportive or Mutually Exclusive?
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 3 - Volume 3
Automated Derivation of Complex Agent Architectures from Analysis Specifications
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
Determining When to Use an Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Paradigm
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
An application perspective evaluation of multi-agent system in versatile environments
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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A modelling approach based on the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is proposed as a first stage in developing agent based systems. The SSMapproach enables a better conceptualisation of the system being developed, and enables each stake holder to evaluate the system from their particular viewpoints. Such an approach can also support the decomposition of an information system into a set of collaborating agents. We suggest that this is a more intuitive approach to designing agent based systems, and one which can be used as a first step to other work centered on the Unified Modelling Language (UML). A methodology for translating systems requirements into a set of collaborating agents is presented.