AMA: a compound methodology for designing andimplementing agent-based systems

Agent oriented software engineering (AOSE) is one of the newdevelopments in computer software technology. This technologyprovides facilities for design and generation of complexdistributive systems in the form of agent oriented methodologies.It also analyses interactions among the agents and calculationsbased on agent. Various methodologies have already beenpresented for development of agent oriented software which canbe used in different software projects. Regarding the fact that insoftware projects, selection of the appropriate methodology fordevelopment leads to the made product having appropriatequality and efficiency, recognition of the methodologies' weakand strong points in order to apply them in different projectsseems crucial. In this article we intend to develop a compoundmethodology by mixing the strengths of methodologies in allphases. In this connection, the strengths of the threemethodologies of AOR, MASSIVE, and ADELFE are extractedbased on assessment methods and criteria including concepts andconceptions, modeling language, process and pragmatism. Then,a methodology dubbed AMA is developed through mixing thestrengths of these methodologies

AMA: a compound methodology for designing andimplementing agent-based systems Keywords:

agent-oriented software engineering , agent-basedsystem , AOR , MASSIVE , ADELFE