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The integrated approach covers all the stages of
MAS planning and implementation, supporting them
with tools and frameworks. The proposed fusion of
methodologies, Protégé and Prometheus, was chosen
because of the wide range of functions offered and
their conformance to international standards.
However, other combinations of agent-oriented tools
could be used, whenever it helps getting the same
result and support during MAS development,
deployment and maintenance.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Marina V. Sokolova is the recipient of Postdoctoral
Scholarship 0000253836, Program II.E (Becas
MAE) awarded by the Agencia Española de
Cooperación Internacional of the Spanish Ministerio
de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación.
This work is supported in part by the Spanish
Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia TIN2004-07661-
C02-02 and TIN2007-67586-C02-02 grants, and the
Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha
PBI06-0099 grant.
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