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MASD: Towards a Comprehensive Multi-agent System Development Methodology

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008 Workshops (OTM 2008)

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In recent years multi-agent systems have gained a growing acceptance as a required technology to develop complex distributed systems. As result, there is a growing need for practical methodology for developing such systems. This paper presents a new Multi-Agent System Development (MASD) methodology, which has been developed over several years through analyzing and studying most of the existing agent-oriented ones. This methodology is constructed based on the strengths and weaknesses of existing methodologies. MASD aims to provide designers of agent-based systems with a set of methods and guidelines to allow them to control the construction process of complex systems. It enables software engineers to specify agent-based systems that would be implemented within an execution environment, for example Jadex platform. MASD differs from existing methodologies in that, it is a detailed and complete method ology for developing multi-agent systems. In this paper, we describe the process of the methodology illustrated by a running example namely a car rental system.

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  1. IT Faculty, University of Garyounis, Benghazi, Libya

    T. Abdelaziz & M. Elammari

  2. University of Duisburg-Essen, ICB, (work was performed while being visiting researcher), Germany

    T. Abdelaziz & M. Elammari

  3. School of ICT, University of the West of Scotland, Scotland, UK

    C. Branki

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  1. STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB),, Bldg G/10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, VIC 3001, Melbourne, Australia

    Zahir Tari

  3. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

    Pilar Herrero

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Abdelaziz, T., Elammari, M., Branki, C. (2008). MASD: Towards a Comprehensive Multi-agent System Development Methodology. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008 Workshops. OTM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88875-8_30

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