INCORPORATING THE ELEMENTS OF THE MASE METHODOLOGY INTO AGENT OPEN

Q.-N. N. Tran, B. Henderson-Sellers, J. Debenham

2004

Abstract

Enterprise-wide, web-based systems can be assisted in their construction by the use of agents and an agent-oriented methodology. As part of an extensive research programme to create such an AO methodology by combining the benefits of method engineering and existing object-oriented frameworks (notably the OPF), we have analysed here contributions to the OPF repository of process components from the MASE agent-oriented methodology, identifying three new Tasks, one additional Technique and two new Work Products.

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N. Tran Q., Henderson-Sellers B. and Debenham J. (2004). INCORPORATING THE ELEMENTS OF THE MASE METHODOLOGY INTO AGENT OPEN . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 380-388. DOI: 10.5220/0002597103800388


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Q.-N. N. Tran and B. Henderson-Sellers and J. Debenham},
title={INCORPORATING THE ELEMENTS OF THE MASE METHODOLOGY INTO AGENT OPEN},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={380-388},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002597103800388},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - INCORPORATING THE ELEMENTS OF THE MASE METHODOLOGY INTO AGENT OPEN
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - N. Tran Q.
AU - Henderson-Sellers B.
AU - Debenham J.
PY - 2004
SP - 380
EP - 388
DO - 10.5220/0002597103800388