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Assembling Agent Oriented Software Engineering Methodologies from Features

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering III (AOSE 2002)

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In this paper we describe our effort to merge two existing AOSE methodologies, Prometheus and ROADMAP, by isolating a set of generalpurpose common elements. The remaining parts of the two methodologies are componentized into special purpose “value-adding” features. This approach empowers the developer to assemble a methodology tailored to the given project (and the application domain) by adding appropriate features to the common elements. The assembled methodology can be modified during development to support changing aspects of the system.

Michael Winikoff is supported by the Australian Research Council and Agent Oriented Software Pty. Ltd.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie Street Carlton, 3010, Victoria, Australia

    Thomas Juan & Leon Sterling

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476V, 3001, Melbourne, Australia

    Michael Winikoff

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy

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  3. Institut für Informatik Technische, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748, Garching, Germany

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Juan, T., Sterling, L., Winikoff, M. (2003). Assembling Agent Oriented Software Engineering Methodologies from Features. In: Giunchiglia, F., Odell, J., Weiß, G. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering III. AOSE 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2585. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36540-0_16

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