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The development of software systems is a complex task that requires support techniques to guide the process and solve inconsistencies in its products. In the agent paradigm, the use of social and intentional abstractions facilitates the application of these techniques in theories for the analysis of human societies, such as the Activity Theory. The Activity Theory proposes patterns that appear in human groups to explain their behaviour, and the study of their internal contradictions to understand its evolution. These patterns can be translated to the agent paradigm to reason about the behaviour of multi-agent systems. To ease the use of such techniques, a partially automatized process is proposed. The aim is to create an assistant that helps developers in the specification of their multi-agent systems. The use of this tool is evaluated through case studies specified with the INGENIAS notation.
This work has been developed in the project INGENIAS (TIC2002-04516-C03-03), which is funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology.
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Fuentes, R., Gómez-Sanz, J.J., Pavón, J. (2004). Social Analysis of Multi-agent Systems with Activity Theory. In: Conejo, R., Urretavizcaya, M., Pérez-de-la-Cruz, JL. (eds) Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence. TTIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3040. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25945-9_52
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