Agent-oriented Methodologies

Agent-Oriented Methodologies presents, analyzes and compares the most significant methodological approaches currently available for the creation of agent-oriented software systems. The chapters of this book each address the details of one specific agent-oriented methodology, written by the original methodology creators. They highlight the methodology details and also the strengths and motivation. Each chapter also notes any purposeful omissions and weaknesses and each ends with a small case study to exemplify the application of the methodological approach. Agent-Oriented Methodologies offers the use of a method engineering approach based on the OPEN Process Framework (OPF) to bring together these potentially disparate methodological approaches to sustain the methodology developers and researchers use in creating a more holistic approach that will be suitable for adoption by industry software developers.

Brian Henderson-Sellers is Director of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research and Professor of Information Systems at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He holds degrees from the University of London (BSc and DSc), Reading University (MSc) and the University of Leicester (PhD). He has published well over 500 technical articles including 24 books. Paolo Giorgini is researcher in Computer Science at University of Trento. His research interests include agent-oriented software engineering, multi-agent system modeling and design, knowledge representation and conceptual modeling. Giorgini has worked on the development of requirements and design languages for agent-based systems, and the application of knowledge representation techniques to software repositories and software development. He is currently working in a number of research projects at University of Trento and ITC-irst.