Authors:
Luca Cernuzzi
1
and
Franco Zambonelli
2
Affiliations:
1
DISMI, Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy and DEI, Universidad Católica “Nuestra Seóra de la Asunción”, Paraguay
;
2
DISMI, Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Keyword(s):
CASE tool, Gaia, Eclipse, Multiagent Systems Design, Software Engineering.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
CASE Tools for System Development
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Process Design and Organisational Issues in E-Commerce
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Different efforts have been devoted to improve the original version of Gaia methodology. The more relevant is the official extension of Gaia, exploiting the organizational abstractions to provide clear guidelines for the analysis and design of complex and open multiagent systems. However, now a day a successful design methodology should include some other strategic factors like the support of a specific CASE tool to simplify the work of the designer. Such a tool supporting the Gaia design process may facilitate the adoption of the methodology in the industrial arena. The present study introduces Gaia4E, a plug-in for the ECLIPSE environment which covers all the phases of Gaia allowing agent engineers to produce and document the corresponding models.