Software engineering development is crucial for industrial and commercial applications as these systems are required to operate in increasingly complex, distributed, open, dynamic, unpredictable, and inherently highly interactive environments. This work is being motivated by the need to engineer complex systems with autonomous entities, to manage their inherent complexity during analysis, desig...

The initial step of any software engineering methodology is to form requirements. Recently, a goal-oriented approach to requirements has been proposed and argued to be beneficial. Goals also play a key role in the implementation of proactive software agents. However, although some agent-oriented software engineering methodologies have incorporated (aspects of) goal-oriented requirements enginee...

This paper outlines an aspect-oriented approach to support separation and modularization of crosscutting concerns in multi-agent systems. Aspects are used as abstractions to capture social patterns as concerns that crosscut software agents in multi-agent systems, whose separation and modularization are not taken into account in current agent-oriented software engineering. Social patterns are de...

Software engineering is a young discipline. Despite efforts in recent decades, some elements still require further development, research, and systematization. One of these elements are methods for software engineering. They consist of a set of well-defined activities used in a software development to guide how the work should be performed to achieve the expected results. However, there is a lac...

Agent-oriented approach to software engineering (Agent-SE) for mul-tiagent software design is presented. It includes methods to generate organizational information for cooperative and coordinative agents. Agent-SE can be used to design and implement complex, heterogeneous, distributed and networked software systems using dynamic agent coalition structure.

100) Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) is a promising area of research with many potentially useful applications. The use of Roles within AOSE has been noted as an important enabling feature, but there is still much conjecture as to their form and usage. This paper seeks to form a singular description of an Agent Role. So that this Role definition can be used in a wider context, this p...

In this paper we describe our effort to merge two existing AOSE methodologies, Prometheus and ROADMAP, by isolating a set of generalpurpose common elements. The remaining parts of the two methodologies are componentized into special purpose “value-adding” features. This approach empowers the developer to assemble a methodology tailored to the given project (and the application domain) by adding...

The notion of society should play a central role in agent-oriented software engineering as a first-class abstraction around which complex systems can be designed and built as multi-agent systems. We argue that an effective agentoriented methodology should account for inter-agent aspects by providing engineers with specific abstractions and tools for the analysis and design of agent societies an...

Autonomous agents are beginning to be used as a software paradigm, because of their potential to build more powerful and flexible complex systems. To achieve such benefits a standard definition of is agenthood is necessary. In doing so, agent-oriented software engineering will not only be able to develop standardised processes for building agent-based systems but also be able to better as evalu...

The ‘ensembles’ identified by the InterLink working group on Software Intensive Systems comprise vast numbers of components adapting and interacting in complex and even unforseen ways. If the analysis of ensembles is difficult, their synthesis, or engineering, is downright intimidating. We show, following a recent three-level approach to agent-oriented software engineering, that it is possible ...