Expectation-Oriented Analysis and Design

Automated Derivation of Complex Agent Architectures from Analysis Specifications

“…Fig. 8 shows the basic state diagram for the Agent Component, which is designed to handle both transient 1 and persistent 2 components. The Agent Component can also be transformed to account for special agent characteristics like mobility, where the agent must halt all of its active components, move to a new location, and then resume the components where they were interrupted.…”

“…The developer must also decide which agent classes will be in the system and the roles that each agent class will play. 1 A transient component is started in response to the receipt of a specific event. There may be multiple transient components of the same type executing at any one time.…”

“…Methodologies for AOSE attempt to provide a method for engineering practical multiagent systems. However, there are currently only a few AOSE methodologies for multiagent systems, and many of those are still under development [1,12,13,18,20]. Additionally, most existing methodologies lack specific guidance on how to transform the specification of a system into the corresponding design and implementation.…”

Determining When to Use an Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Paradigm

“…The strategic decision-making technique selected for the problem of methodology selection is Multiobjective Decision Analysis [9]. Multiobjective Decision Analysis was selected as the underlying framework because (1) of its ability to handle multiple criteria, (2) it is based on a mathematical framework, (3) it is a flexible technique, and (4) it is a mature technique.…”

“…Once a designer has made the decision to use a multiagent design, a number of methodologies exist for building multiagent systems [2,3,4,7,14,15,19]. The methodologies range from extensions of existing object-oriented methodologies to new agent-oriented techniques, which offer a new perspective t o developing multiagent systems by increasing the level of abstraction the developer uses to analyze and design the system.…”