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Developing complex systems is generally simplified if designer is guided by method from Software Engineering. However a single engineering process is often not enough to cover all the possible requirements due to different levels of expertise and systems to design. Currently, Agent Oriented Software Engineering methods aim at providing an adaptive engineering process. The method processes have been broken up into different parts called fragments, enabling the mix of different engineering processes’ parts to get better adequacy between the system to be done and the process. But some difficulties still remain concerning the expertise needed to compose these fragments when the amount of fragments prevents the composition to be done by hand. This paper presents an Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems (AMAS) to deal with a new paradigm of automated fragments combining. This process is made from both the characteristics of users and system and the known fragments. Thanks to their information, agents of the AMAS self-organise and design a tailored method process. The developed system is described and then usual tests are depicted.
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Bonjean, N., Gleizes, MP., Maurel, C., Migeon, F. (2013). Forward Self-combined Method Fragments. In: Müller, J.P., Cossentino, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XIII. AOSE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7852. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39866-7_10
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