Abstract. This paper reports on our work on three complementary directions, aimed at developing: (i) a theoretical framework named UFO (Unified Foundational Ontology) for (re) desi...
Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Jo&at...
Mainstreaming and industrialising agent technologies requires suitable methodological and technological support for the various engineering activities associated with managing the...
This paper describes West2East, a Computer-Aided Agent-Oriented Software Engineering toolkit aimed at supporting the implementation of multiagent systems. West2East exploits langua...
This paper presents the Agent Factory Development Methodology, an Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodology that employs a synthesis of the Unified Modelling Languag...
We briefly review the history and key ideas in Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering research. We then sketch two applications of these ideas. The first involves establishing an ...