MAS Ontology: Ontology for Multiagent Systems

Felipe Cordeiro, Vera Maria B. Werneck, Neide dos Santos, Luiz Marcio Cysneiros

2016

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.

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Cordeiro F., Werneck V., dos Santos N. and Cysneiros L. (2016). MAS Ontology: Ontology for Multiagent Systems . In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-187-8, pages 536-543. DOI: 10.5220/0005870105360543


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@conference{iceis16,
author={Felipe Cordeiro and Vera Maria B. Werneck and Neide dos Santos and Luiz Marcio Cysneiros},
title={MAS Ontology: Ontology for Multiagent Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2016},
pages={536-543},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005870105360543},
isbn={978-989-758-187-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - MAS Ontology: Ontology for Multiagent Systems
SN - 978-989-758-187-8
AU - Cordeiro F.
AU - Werneck V.
AU - dos Santos N.
AU - Cysneiros L.
PY - 2016
SP - 536
EP - 543
DO - 10.5220/0005870105360543