Validation of the development methodologies
This work addresses the need for better development, evaluation, and comparison of multi-agent methodologies, but it appears incremental as it applies existing software development practices to this domain.
The paper tackles the problem of improving multi-agent systems software engineering by modeling development methodologies, resulting in a system for partial validation of such methodologies.
This paper argues that modelling the development methodologies can improve the multi-agents systems software engineering. Such modelling allows applying methods, techniques and practices used in the software development to the methodologies themselves. The paper discusses then the advantages of the modelling of development methodologies. It describes a model of development methodologies, uses such a model to develop a system of their partial validation, and applies such a system to multi-agent methodologies. Several benefits can be gained from such modelling, such as the improvement of the works on the development, evaluation and comparison of multi-agent development methodologies.