Development Research Map

Methodologies and Methods

Methodologies are needed to systematically guide and support agent software engineers through the various stages of system development. They therefore form the framework and define the rules for the whole development process. In each step of the development the methodology proposes a certain method that can be used to define the necessary system artefacts. To be able to build industrial-strength agent oriented applications sound methodologies and methods are of great importance. Some well-known methodologies are Gaia [WJK00], MaSE [DeL01], Tropos [GMP02] and Prometheus [PW02].

[WJK00]	M. J. Wooldridge, N. R. Jennings, D. Kinny. The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 2000.
[DeL]	S. A. DeLoach. Analysis and Design using MaSE and agentTool. In Proceedings of the 12th Midwest Artifical Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAISC). 2001.
[GMP02]	F. Giunchiglia, J. Mylopoulos, A. Perini. The Tropos Software Development Methodology: Processes, Models and Diagrams. In Third International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. 2002.
[PW02]	L. Padgham, M. Winikoff. Prometheus: A Pragmatic Methodology for Engineering Intelligent Agents. In Proceedings of the workshop on Agent-oriented methodlogies at OOPSLA 2002.