Enhancing Requirements to derive Multi-Agent Architectures

Software systems of today are characterized by the increasing size, complexity, distribution and heterogeneity. Understanding and supporting the interaction between software requirements and architectures remains one of the challenging problems in software engineering research. In this paper we present an approach for integration of system requirements and software architectures within the context of the Tropos project, an information system development framework that is requirement-driven in the sense that it adopts concepts used during early requirements analysis. Our framework advocates that a multi agent system corresponds to the organizational structure, in which actors are members of a group in order to perform specific tasks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WER
• Authors: Lúcia R. D. Bastos, Jaelson Brelaz de Castro
• Keywords: Early Requirements Analysis, Software Engineering, Software Engineering Research, Software Requirements, WER 2004