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International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

AOSE 2012: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XIII pp 1–21Cite as

A Methodological Approach to Model Driven Design of Multiagent Systems

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In this paper we propose a methodological approach to model driven design of multiagent systems (MAS). However, several methodologies for MAS have already been proposed and we do not want to present yet another new methodology. Our aim is rather to explain how our MAS development framework Bochica, which we already presented in [1], relates to such methodologies and how the proposals from literature can be integrated to extend the Bochica framework. As a result, we propose an iterative process for MAS design where several stakeholders work cooperatively in a food chain for the design of MAS and each stakeholder gets the tool support that he or she needs.

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Fischer, K., Warwas, S. (2013). A Methodological Approach to Model Driven Design of Multiagent Systems. In: Müller, J.P., Cossentino, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XIII. AOSE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7852. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39866-7_1

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