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Towards a Building Methodology for Software Agents

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The importance of agent-oriented methodology can’t be more emphasized, and AOM is becoming the most promising research area in agent field. In this paper, we propose a component-role-agent model, formally define the concepts and dependency relations used in agent-oriented analysis and design. Based on such formalization and the mental hierarchy theory (Fan, 2000), an agent-oriented methodology is introduced, and a case study is given to show how to analyze and design an electronic library.

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  1. Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Lemminkäisenkatu 14, FIN-20520, Turku, Finland

    Xiaocong Fan

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  1. School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London, UK

    Dilip Patel  & Shushma Patel  & 

  2. School of Computing, London Guildhall University, 100 Minories, London, UK

    Islam Choudhury

  3. Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, London, UK

    Sergio de Cesare

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Fan, X. (2001). Towards a Building Methodology for Software Agents. In: Patel, D., Choudhury, I., Patel, S., de Cesare, S. (eds) OOIS 2000. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0299-1_4

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