Development of Agent-Driven Systems: from i* Architectural Models to Intentional Agents Code

The intentionality concept can improve the cognitive capacity of software agents, especially if the proposed intentional reasoning engine deals with softgoals at runtime. In this scenario, the use of an intentionality-based technological set to develop agent-driven systems from i* models to code is adequate. In this paper, we propose heuristics to improve the development of agent-driven systems from i* models to Belief-Desire-Intention-based code. Moreover, we apply a fuzzy-logic-based mechanism to deal with softgoals “on the fly”, improving the reasoning engine of intentional agents. We compare our efforts with related work and illustrate our contributions with a case study.