USING A TWO-WAY BALANCED INCOMPLETE BLOCK DESIGN TO COMPARING AN AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES

Faezeh Parandoosh, Siavosh Kaviani

2007

Abstract

There has been a surge of interest in agent-oriented software engineering in recent years. Numerous methodologies for developing agent-based systems have been proposed in the literature and the area of agent-oriented methodologies is maturing rapidly. Evaluating methodologies' strengths, weaknesses and domains of applicability plays an important role in improving them and in developing the ""next-generation"" of methodologies. In this paper, we present a reliable framework that adopts statistical techniques to compare agent-oriented methodologies. Based upon this framework we performed a comparison of four AOSE methodologies MaSE, Prometheus, Tropos and Gaia.

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Parandoosh F. and Kaviani S. (2007). USING A TWO-WAY BALANCED INCOMPLETE BLOCK DESIGN TO COMPARING AN AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8111-10-4, pages 56-65. DOI: 10.5220/0002585200560065


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@conference{enase07,
author={Faezeh Parandoosh and Siavosh Kaviani},
title={USING A TWO-WAY BALANCED INCOMPLETE BLOCK DESIGN TO COMPARING AN AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2007},
pages={56-65},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002585200560065},
isbn={978-989-8111-10-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - USING A TWO-WAY BALANCED INCOMPLETE BLOCK DESIGN TO COMPARING AN AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES
SN - 978-989-8111-10-4
AU - Parandoosh F.
AU - Kaviani S.
PY - 2007
SP - 56
EP - 65
DO - 10.5220/0002585200560065