Structural Analysis of Agent Oriented Methodologies

Abstract

Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) systems are often distinguished with intelligence, autonomy, and reasoning. The main purposes of development AOSE methodologies are to facilitate the process of developing software lifecycle, and increase the quality of software products. Now, there are no agreements on constructing agents or modeling them in the lifecycle development process. Large number of AOSE methodologies with various backgrounds, was available in the last years. However, assessment of these methodologies faced several difficulties; the completeness of various methodologies varies explicitly, for this, comparing agent methodologies is more difficult; as they cover different aspects or differ in their terminology. The main objective of this study is to analyze several agent-based methodologies in an attempt to assess and understand the relationship among these agent-oriented methodologies by performing structural analysis.