REPMAS: A Requirements Engineering Process for MultiAgent Systems: An Application Example

Iderli Filho, Gilleanes Guedes, Giovane Mendonça

2023

Abstract

Requirements engineering is a crucial phase for the development process of any software, including multi-agent systems. This particular kind of software is composed of agents, autonomous and proactive entities which can collaborate among themselves to achieve a given goal. However, multi-agent systems have some particular requirements that are not normally found in other software, making the requirements engineering general processes and techniques less efficient. Taking this into account, this work presents a specific requirements engineering process for multi-agent systems with emphasis in a consolidated model in the cognitive agents development (BDI Model). This process supports the requirements engineering subareas of elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation, thus, presenting a wide coverage of the requirements engineering area. The proposed process was evaluated through its application in requirements engineering of Heraclito multi-agent system. This assessment allowed us to identify future works and improvement points in our work.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Filho I., Guedes G. and Mendonça G. (2023). REPMAS: A Requirements Engineering Process for MultiAgent Systems: An Application Example. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-623-1, pages 387-395. DOI: 10.5220/0011798800003393

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart23,
author={Iderli Filho and Gilleanes Guedes and Giovane Mendonça},
title={REPMAS: A Requirements Engineering Process for MultiAgent Systems: An Application Example},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2023},
pages={387-395},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011798800003393},
isbn={978-989-758-623-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - REPMAS: A Requirements Engineering Process for MultiAgent Systems: An Application Example
SN - 978-989-758-623-1
AU - Filho I.
AU - Guedes G.
AU - Mendonça G.
PY - 2023
SP - 387
EP - 395
DO - 10.5220/0011798800003393