A knowledge level software engineering methodology for agent oriented programming

  • Authors:

  • Paolo Bresciani;Anna Perini;Paolo Giorgini;Fausto Giunchiglia;John Mylopoulos

  • Affiliations:

  • ITC-Irst, Via Sommarive, 18, I-38050 Trento-Povo, Italy;ITC-Irst, Via Sommarive, 18, I-38050 Trento-Povo, Italy;Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, via Sommarive, 14, I-38050 Trento-Povo, Italy;Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, via Sommarive, 14, I-38050 Trento-Povo, Italy;Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, M5S 3H5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivate a methodology, called \emph{Tropos}, for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion of agent and all the related mentalistic notions (for instance: beliefs, goals, actions and plans) are used in all phases of software development, from the early analysis down to the actual implementation. Second, Tropos covers also the very early phases of requirements analysis, thus allowing for a deeper understanding of the environment where the software must operate, and of the kind of interactions that should occur between software and human agents. The methodology is illustrated with the help of a case study.