Designing MAS Organisation through an Integrated MDA/Ontology Approach

The increasing complexity of distributed applications, software services that can be dynamically deployed, adjusted and composed, paves the way for new challenges in software and service engineering. This paper describes a novel approach that combines the flexibility of MDE techniques to deal with the conceptual modelling of MAS and the expressive power of OWL based ontologies to deal with semantics constraints verification as well as domain knowledge provision of MAS models. We will illustrate these ideas through the modeling of a crisis management scenario, using a first prototype of our future Design tool: OperettA.