The development of Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) involves special concerns, such as interaction, adaptation, autonomy, among others. Many of these concerns are overlapping, crosscut each other and the agent’s basic functionality. Over the last few years, several methodologies and implementation frameworks have been proposed to support agent-oriented software engineering. Although these approaches ...

Software engineers of multi-agent systems (MASs) are faced with different concerns such as autonomy, adaptation, interaction, collaboration, learning, and mobility, which are essentially different from classical concerns addressed in object-oriented software engineering. MAS developers however have relied mostly on object-oriented design techniques and programming languages, such as Java. It of...

The promise of online assemblies has been present for years already, and a diversity of tools have attempted to fulfill it. This work aims to reapproach the issue from a novel standpoint that relies on a federated architecture, a real-time collaborative environment, goal-oriented software agents and a consensus-based methodology. Consensuall is a prototype of consensual decision-making collabor...

Software systems are subject to ever increasing complexity and in need of efficient structuring. The concept of organization as an expressive and abstract realworld reference presents a promising starting point. In the field of computer science, organizations have particularly been studied within the multi-agent systems community. However, the individual agent metaphor turns out to be of rather...

i* is one of the more promising goal-oriented modeling framework to capture and model multi agent systems (MAS) requirements. Moreover, i* has been incorporated as the foundation for one of the more important AOSE methodologies, that is, Tropos. Our research interests related with i* cover two mainly directions. The first, is to compare i* with other methods, techniques and notations for captur...

Developing intelligent agents and cognitive models is a complex software engineering activity. This article shows how tools to create intelligent agents can be improved by taking advantage of established software engineering principles such as high-level languages, maintenance-oriented development environments, and software reuse. We describe how these principles have been realized in the Herba...

Biographical notes: Danny Weyns is a post-doctoral researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium. He obtained his PhD in 2006 for research on the connection between multiagent systems and software architecture. Weyns's research interests include the role of the environment in multiagent systems, architectural description languages for decentralised systems and aspect-oriented sof...

Agent oriented software development is one of the most contributions to the field of software engineering. The method of analysis and design is not so mature as structured analysis and design and object oriented analysis and design. In this case, robust and easyto-use methodologies and tools have to be developed for agent based software engineering. As we know, Analysis is an important phase in...

Multi-agent systems (MASs) provide powerful models for representing real-world applications with an appropriate degree of complexity and dynamism. Several industrial experiences have already shown that the use of MAS offers advantages in many different areas such as manufacturing processes, e-Commerce, network management, etc. As MASs in such contexts need to be tested before their deployment a...

One of the most stimulating research lines in software engineering today, process engineering is currently a hot topic in agentoriented software engineering research [1–4]. A number of methodologies have been designed such as ADELFE, ASPECS, INGENIAS, MaSE, PASSI, Prometheus, SODA, Tropos,. . . , each of which with their own specificities. Sometimes, when a multi-agent application has to be des...