Authors:
Felipe Cordeiro
1
;
Vera Maria B. Werneck
1
;
Neide dos Santos
1
and
Luiz Marcio Cysneiros
2
Affiliations:
1
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
;
2
York University, Canada
Keyword(s):
Agent-based Software Engineering, Domain Ontology, Comparison of Agent-oriented Methodologies.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development
Abstract:
This work describes the Multiagent Systems (MAS) Ontology to assist in the development of multi-agent system using different methodologies. The MAS Ontology consists of fragmenting agent-oriented methodologies following an ontology approach based on the best aspects of four prominent AOSE methodologies and Guardian Angel exemplar that identify the strengths, weaknesses, commonalities and differences. In this paper, we present a brief explanation of Multiagent methodologies and the step-by-step process to describe the agent-based systems domain and how it can be represented. Given the numerous works in the literature about MAS methodologies, our aim is to help select the best and more appropriate properties to be used in Multiagent Systems development.