Comparison of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Processes

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The following pages contain an overview of different agent-oriented software engineering processes and their characteristics. General issues with the evaluation of AOSE approaches are described in Comparing and Evaluating Agent-oriented Software Engineering Approaches. The comparison is conducted using qualitative criteria introduced by Tran and Low (2005) and Tran et al. (2005) as detailed in Evaluation and Validation Criteria. The Qualitative Comparison of AOSE processes itself is conducted for a number of well-known AOSE processes and will be extended in the future for further methodologies. Finally, Selecting a suitable AOSE process gives some hints on how the criteria can be used to select an approach for a specific project.

The content on these pages is originally from Steghöfer (2014).

• Comparing and Evaluating Agent-oriented Software Engineering Approaches
• Evaluation and Validation Criteria
• Qualitative Comparison of AOSE processes
• Selecting a suitable AOSE process

Bibliography

• J.-Ph. Steghöfer: "Large-Scale Open Self-Organising Systems — Managing Complexity with Hierarchies, Monitoring, Adaptation, and Principled Design". Doctoral Thesis. Faculty of Applied Computer Science, University of Augsburg (2014)
• Q. Tran, and G. Low. Agent-oriented methodologies, chapter "Comparison of ten agent-oriented methodologies", pp. 341–367. Idea Group, Hershey, PA (2005).
• Q. Tran, G. Low, and M.-A. Williams. "A preliminary comparative feature analysis of multi-agent systems development methodologies". In Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems II, AOIS’04, pp. 157–168. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005)

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