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Metamodel-based metrics for agent-oriented methodologies

Authors:

Noélie Bonjean,

Marie-Pierre Gleizes,

Antonio Chella,

Frédéric Migeon,

Massimo Cossentino,

Valeria SeiditaAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '12: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2

Pages 1065 - 1072

Published: 04 June 2012 Publication History

Abstract

A great number of methodologies has been already introduced in the agent-oriented software engineering field. Recently many of the authors of these methodologies also worked on their fragmentation thus obtaining portions (often called method or process fragments) that may be composed into new methodologies. The great advancement in this field, however does not correspond to equivalent results in the evaluation of the methodologies and their fragments. It is, for instance, difficult to select a fragment in the composition of a new methodology and to predict the methodology's resulting features. This work introduces a suite of metrics for evaluating and comparing entire methodologies but also their composing fragments. The proposed metrics are based on the multi-agent system metamodel. The metrics have been applied to the ADELFE and PASSI methodologies, results prove the usefulness of the proposed approach and encourage further studies on the matter.

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Bonjean NGleizes MMaurel CMigeon F(2012)Forward Self-combined Method FragmentsRevised Selected Papers of the 13th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XIII - Volume 785210.1007/978-3-642-39866-7_10(168-178)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-39866-7_10

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AAMAS '12: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2

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Bonjean NGleizes MMaurel CMigeon F(2012)Forward Self-combined Method FragmentsRevised Selected Papers of the 13th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XIII - Volume 785210.1007/978-3-642-39866-7_10(168-178)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-39866-7_10

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