Goal-Oriented Methodology for Agent System Development

  • Authors:
  • Zhiqi Shen;Chunyan Miao;Robert Gay;Dongtao Li

  • Affiliations:
  • The authors are with the School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. E-mail: zqshen@ntu.edu.sg,;The authors are with the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.;The authors are with the School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. E-mail: zqshen@ntu.edu.sg,;The authors are with the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

  • Venue:
  • IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The Goal-Orientation is one of the key features in agent systems. This paper proposes a new methodology for multi-agent system development based on Goal Net model. The methodology covers the whole life cycle of the agent system development, from requirement analysis, architecture design, detailed design to implementation. A Multi-Agent Development Environment (MADE) that facilitates the design and implementation of agent systems is presented. A case study on an agent-based e-learning system developed using the proposed methodology is illustrated in this paper.