Authors:
Faezeh Parandoosh
and
Siavosh Kaviani
Affiliation:
Payamenour University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Keyword(s):
Incomplete block design, Agent, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE), Agent-Oriented methodologies, MaSE, Prometheus, Tropos and Gaia.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agent Models and Architectures
;
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
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.