This paper presents a case study to illustrate the features and the stages of the Tropos methodology. Tropos is an agent-oriented software engineering methodology that covers four development stages: early and late requirements analysis, architectural design and detail design. The electronic Single Assessment Process (eSAP), and electronic system to deliver the integrated health assessment of h...

The consideration of security requirements in the development of multi-agent systems is a very difficult task. However, only few approaches have been proposed that try to integrate security issues as internal part of the development process. Amongst them, secure Tropos has been proposed as a structured approach towards the consideration of security issues in the development of multiagent system...

1 Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield, England, email: {h.mouratidis, g.manson}@dcs.shef.ac.uk 2 Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing (SISA), England, email: [email protected] 3 Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Italy, email: [email protected] Abstract. This paper argues the potential of agent technology to support deli...

The supersymmetric evolution of the fragmentation functions (or timelike evolution) within N = 1 QCD is discussed and predictions for the fragmentation functions of the theory (into final protons) are given. We use a backward running of the supersymmetric DGLAP equations, using a method developed in previous works. We start from the usual QCD parameterizations at low energy and run the DGLAP ba...