Abstract
This paper presents a systematic literature review to investigate which techniques have been applied to give support to the requirements engineering activity in the development of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). We reviewed 49 of 389 papers found that were directly related to our goal. The results show that most of the proposals for dealing with requirements (78%) use already defined methods or techniques, and that 67% of these techniques are based on the goal-oriented paradigm. A total of 96% of the reviewed papers focus on techniques for analyzing requirements and only 39% of them explicitly consider some kind of elicitation technique. The results are important for determining current research activities in Requirements Engineering for MAS and for the identification of research gaps for further investigation.
This work is funded by the META project (TIN2006-15175-C05-05) and the Quality-driven model transformations project (UPV).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Burmeister, B., Arnold, M., Copaciu, F., Rimassa, G.: BDI-agents for agile goal-oriented business processes. In: AAMAS (Industry Track), pp. 37–44 (2008)
Dehlinger, J., Lutz Robyn, R.: A product-line requirements approach to safe reuse in multi-agent systems. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 30(4), 1–7 (2005)
Henderson-Sellers, B., Giorgini, P. (eds.): Agent-Oriented Methodologies. Idea Group (2005)
Kitchenham, B.: Procedures for Performing Systematic Reviews. Joint Technical Report Software Engineering Group, Keele University, United Kingdom and Empirical Software Engineering, National ICT Australia Ltd, Australia (2004)
Ranjan, P., Misra, A.K.: A hybrid model for agent based system requirements analysis. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 31(3), 1–7 (2006)
Wilmann, D., Sterling, L.: Guiding agent-oriented requirements elicitation: HOMER. QSIC 2005, 419–424 (2005)
Zambonelli, F., Jennings, N.R., Wooldridge, M.: Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 12(3), 317–370 (2003)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Blanes, D., Insfran, E., Abrahão, S. (2009). Reviewing the Use of Requirements Engineering Techniques in the Development of Multi-Agent Systems. In: Omatu, S., et al. Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living. IWANN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5518. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02481-8_19
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02481-8_19
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-02480-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-02481-8
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)