Incorporating the Elements of the Mase Methodology Into Agent Open

Abstract

Abstract:Enterprise-wide, web-based systems can be assisted in their construction by the use of agents and an agentoriented methodology. As part of an extensive research programme to create such an AO methodology by combining the benefits of method engineering and existing object-oriented frameworks (notably the OPF), we have analysed here contributions to the OPF repository of process components from the MASE agentoriented methodology, identifying three new Tasks, one additional Technique and two new Work Products.