Issues in Multiagent System Development

Methodologies for multiagent system development should assist the developer in making decisions about those aspects of the analysis, design and implementation, that are crucial for multiagent systems, namely, social and cognitive concepts (e.g. norms and goals). In this paper, we review existing agent-oriented methodologies. We conclude that there is a big gap between the analysis and design models and the implementation. We identify some open issues for multiagent system development. We introduce our vision of a development methodology for multiagent systems, based on the OperA analysis models and the agent-oriented programming language 3APL.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Mehdi Dastani, Joris Hulstijn, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
• Keywords: Agent-oriented Methodologies, ATAL 2004, Multiagent, Multiagent Systems