GORMAS: An Organizational-Oriented Methodological Guideline for Open MAS

Argente, Estefanía; Botti, Vicente; Julián, Vicente

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-19208-1_3

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“…Just a few methodologies consider services as an important part of the analysis and design of the system and provide guidelines for specifying their interface as well as their internal functionality (Fernandez et al 2007, Argente et al 2009). Without these kinds of guidelines the designer should rely only in his/her expertise to specify the services and their attributes.…”

Section: Agent-oriented Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Designing normative open virtual enterprises

García

Giret

Botti

2015

Enterprise Information Systems

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Abstract:There is an increasing interest on developing virtual enterprises in order to deal with the globalization of the economy, the rapid growth of information technologies and the increase of competitiveness. In this paper we deal with the development of normative virtual enterprises (NOVEs). They are systems with a global objective that are composed of a set of heterogeneous entities and enterprises that exchange services following a specific normative context. In order to analyze and design systems of this kind the multiagent paradigm seems suitable because it offers a specific solutions for supporting the social and contractual relationships between enterprises and for formalising their business processes. This paper presents how the ROMAS methodology, an agent-oriented software methodology, can be used to analyse and design NOVEs. ROMAS offers a complete development process that allows to identify and formalise the structure of NOVEs, their normative context and the interactions among their members. The use of ROMAS is exemplified by means of a case study that represents an automotive supply chain.

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Section: Agent-oriented Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Due to the fact that in the literature there are several well-defined guidelines to identify the organizational structure of a system, ROMAS does not offer any new guideline. Instead the use of the guideline defined by the GORMAS methodology in (Argente et al 2009) is recommended.…”

Section: Phase 2: Organization Specificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing normative open virtual enterprises

García

Giret

Botti

2015

Enterprise Information Systems

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“…However, those that support the design of individual agents usually allow the specification of agent norms [4].…”

Section: Evaluation Criteriamentioning

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Evaluating how agent methodologies support the specification of the normative environment through the development process

García

Miles

Lück

et al. 2014

Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst

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Due to the increase in collaborative work and the decentralization of processes in many domains, there is an expanding demand for large-scale, flexible and adaptive software systems to support the interactions of people and institutions distributed in heterogeneous environments. Commonly, these software applications should follow specific regulations meaning the actors using them are bound by rights, duties and restrictions. Since this normative environment determines the final design of the software system, it should be considered as an important issue during the design of the system. Some agentoriented software engineering methodologies deal with the development of normative systems (systems that have a normative environment) by integrating the analysis of the normative environment of a system in the development process. This paper analyses to what extent these methodologies support the analysis and formalisation of the normative environment and highlights some open issues of the topic.

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“…We studied more recent agent models such as FAML (Beydoun and Low, 2009) and GORMAS (Argente et al, 2009), and some methodologies for Agent Oriented Software Engineering, like GAIA (Zambonelli et al, 2003) and PASSI (Cossentino, 2005). We found that the concept of service is implicit in most of agent models under the concepts of role, capability or behavior.…”

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Service-Oriented Integration of Component and Agent Models

Aboud

Cariou

Gouardères

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies

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Abstract:Multiagent systems and component-based systems are two mature approaches; each one owns strengths and weaknesses points. Our goal is to integrate these two approaches by reaching a high level of connectivity between them to overcome their shortages. The concept of service plays a key role in their interoperability. Indeed, the relations between these three domains are manifold. From a service perspective, agents and components are considered as service providers or consumers while services can be seen as their functional abstractions. Therefore, the concept of service as the interaction point between agents and component is the base of our integration approach. We will define a specification process composed of several models. They are dedicated to specify an application through several aspects: abstract services, components, agents and mix of them. In this paper, we present a global view of this process and three of its models: service, agent and component ones.

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GORMAS: An Organizational-Oriented Methodological Guideline for Open MAS

Cited by 25 publications

References 22 publications

Designing normative open virtual enterprises

Designing normative open virtual enterprises

Evaluating how agent methodologies support the specification of the normative environment through the development process

Service-Oriented Integration of Component and Agent Models

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