Abstract The agent-oriented software engineering methodology Tropos offers a structured development process for the development of socio-technical systems. Such systems explicitly recognise the interplay between social actors (humans and organisations) and technical systems (software). Tropos

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Abstract The key role of environment as a first-class abstraction in the engineering of MAS (multi-agent systems) is today generally acknowledged in the MAS community. However, the support for the notion of environment in today AOSE (agent-oriented software engineering) methodologies is still

The development of multiagent systems is increasing significantly. Thus, multiagent system designers need methodologies and tools to help them. Recent years have seen an incredible development of agent-oriented software engineering methodologies trying to cover all the range of features that agents

Traditionally, a programming course focuses on algorithm and data structure and no software engineering methodologies are introduced. A new way to teach programming is to integrate software engineering methodologies into project assignments. This paper presents how to implement object

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In this paper, we present a software engineering methodology that is specifically tailored to agents with complex, human-like behavior. Many existing agent systems are error-prone and built in an ad-hoc manner. Previous approaches [12] tried to account for all possible inputs to the system

Abstract. One of the challenging research problems in validating a software engineering methodology (SEM), and a part of its validation process, is to answer “How to fairly collect, present and analyze the data?”. This problem adds complexity, in general, when the SEM involves the use of human