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....together with their plans, goals, beliefs, sensors and effectors that allow them to deal with objects that exist in the external environment. Collaboration between agents is through scripts and the methodology for the analysis and design of collaboration is based on use cases. MAS CommonKADS [15] defines the following models. Agent Model describes the main characteristics of the agents, Task Model describes the tasks of the agents , Expertise Model describes the knowledge needed by the agents to achieve their goals, Organisational Model describes both the organisation in which the MAS is ....

Iglesias, C.A., Garijo, M., Gonzalez, J.C., Velasco, J.R.: Analysis and Design of Multi-Agent Systems using MAS-CommonKADS. In Intelligent Agents IV (LNAI Volume 1365) Singh, M.P., Rao, A., Wooldridge, M.J., (eds.): Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Germany, (1998) 313--326.

....by the capturing goals. The goal of MaSE is to lead the designer from the initial system specification to the implemented agent system. Domain restrictions of MaSE are similar to those of Gaia s, but in addition it requires that agent interactions are one to one and not multicast MAS CommonKADS [9] is extends CommonKADS [21] for multi agent systems. It starts with a conceptualization phas e that is an informal phase for collecting the user requirements. This methodology defines the models for the analysis and design of the system, which includes the following models: agent, task, ....

Iglesias, C. A., Garijo, M., Gonz lez , J. C., and Velasco, J. R.: Analysis and design of multiagent systems using MAS-CommonKADS. In: Singh, M. P, Rao, A., and Wooldridge, M. J. (eds.): Intelligent Agents IV (LNAI volume 1365) . Springer-Verlag: Berlin Germany , (1998), 313-326 .

.... OO modelling techniques or methodologies as their basis, seeking either to extend and adapt the models and define a methodology for their use, or to directly extend the applicability of OO methodologies and techniques, such as design patterns, to the design of agent systems, those such as [3, 17] which build upon and extend methodologies and modelling techniques from knowledge engineering, providing formal, compositional modelling languages suitable for the verification of system structure and function, those which take existing formal methods and languages, for example Z [31] and ....

C. Iglesias, M. Garijo, J. C. Gonz alez, and J. R. Velasco, "Analysis and design of multiagent systems using MAS-CommonKADS," in Intelligent Agents IV (LNAI Volume 1365), M. P. Singh, A. Rao, and M. J. Wooldridge, (Eds.), Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Germany, 1998, pp. 313--326.

....that are implied by the overall system task. The second step identifies the relationships between elementary behaviours. Finally, the third step identifies the organizational behaviours of the system representing the way in which agents form themselves into groups. MAS CommonKADS methodology [19] extends the models defined in CommonKADS [38] adding technology from object oriented methodologies and from protocol engineering for describing the agent protocols [36] This methodology starts with a conceptualisation phase from which defines a first description of the system from the user point ....

C. A. Iglesias, M. Garijo and J. C. A. Gonzlez, J.R. Velasco. Analysis and design of multiagent systems using MAS-CommonKADS, Proceedings International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL'97), (1997) 313-327.

....be considered in order to implement cooperation [2, 1] Many Multi Agent Systems (hereafter MASs) have been recently proposed in the literature. In particular, coopera This paper is a short version of the full report [3] tion is often considered as one of the key concepts of agent communities [5, 6, 7]. Researchers in Intelligent Agent Systems have recognized that learning and adaptation are essential mechanisms by which agents can evolve coordinated behaviours finalized to meet the knowledge of the interest domain and the requirements of the individual agents [10, 9] In order to realize such ....

G. Iglesias, M. Garijo, J. Gonzales and J. G. R. Velasco. Analysis and design of multiagent systems using MAS-common KADS. Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, pp 313-327, 1997.

....by the agent itself in order to reach a certain goal. Still, object oriented modeling languages like the UML provide a good basis for the modeling of agent based systems. In fact, a number of authors propose extensions and adaptions of object oriented modeling languages for agent based systems [12, 21, 20]. Most approaches suffer from a problem which is also encountered in OO modeling languages: the lack of adequate means for describing the semantics of operations, their pre conditions and effects on the system s configuration. In particular, the semantics of operations is relevant for the modeling ....

....actors using it and the main functions that the system provides to them. In the context of agent based systems, UML use case diagrams are extended by a special kind of actor (with square heads) representing agents. Goal cases (shown as clouds) are used in order to specify the goals of agents (cf. [12]) The use case diagram of Figure 1, for example, identifies, besides two kinds of users, the agents PBA and AccountAgent. In this way, additional architectural requirements about the distribution of the system s functionality over different agents can be expressed. The use cases select account ....

C. A. Iglesias, M. Garijo, J. C. Gonz alez, and Juan R. Velasco. Analysis and design of multiagent systems using MAS-CommonKADS. In M.P. Singh, A. Rao, and M.J. Wooldridge, editors, Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL97) , volume 1365 of LNAI, pages 313--328. Springer-Verlag, July 24--26 1998.

.... the popularity and complexity of MAS (Multi Agent Systems) they require systematic development methodology, but support of them still lacks in practice [3, 23] For MAS development, although object oriented methodologies are seemed to be natural, they have limitations to properly represent MAS [4, 12, 15, 16, 24]. These limitations include the representing collaboration among agents and mental states of an agent. Several agent oriented design methods have been suggested to cover limits of the past system development methodologies [4, 12, 15, 16, 24] These methodologies have been extended based on the ....

....natural, they have limitations to properly represent MAS [4, 12, 15, 16, 24] These limitations include the representing collaboration among agents and mental states of an agent. Several agent oriented design methods have been suggested to cover limits of the past system development methodologies [4, 12, 15, 16, 24]. These methodologies have been extended based on the past development methodologies such as object oriented methodologies, knowledge engineering methodologies [12] and enterprise integration methodologies [16] They, however, have own special purpose notations and techniques. So, these ....

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Iglesias, C.A., Garijo, M., Gonzalez, J.C., and Velasco, J.R., "Analysis and Design of Multi-Agent Systems Using MAS-CommonKADS", M.P Singh, A.Rao, M.J. Wooldridge, editors, Intelligent Agent IV(ATAL'97), LNAI 1365, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1998, pp. 314 -- 327.

....and when certain artifacts should be produced. Recently, several development methods for multiagent system have been proposed (IGLESIAS et al. 1998) LIND, 1999) the methods that are closest related to the work presented in this paper are described in (BURMEISTER, 1996) BRAZIER et al. 1997) (IGLESIAS et al. 1997), and (WOOLDRIDGE et al. 1999) However, most of these methods feature a technology driven, model oriented and sequential approach towards the development of multiagent applications that is not always adequate for this class of systems. Therefore, we will now outline some alternatives that are ....

IGLESIAS, C., GARRIJO, M., GONZALEZ, J., AND VELASCO, J. R. (1997). Analysis and design of multiagent systems using MAS-CommonKADS. In SINGH, M. P., RAO, A., AND WOOLDRIDGE, M. J., editors, Intelligent Agents IV: Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, number 1365 in LNAI.

.... broadly divided into two groups: those that take their inspiration from object oriented development, and either extend existing OO methodologies or adapt OO methodologies to the purposes of AOSE [10, 45, 77, 54, 18, 3, 44, 56, 70] those that adapt knowledge engineering or other techniques [8, 49, 36, 16]. In the remainder of this section, we review some representative samples of this work. As representatives of the first category, we survey the AAII methodology of Kinny et al. [45] the Gaia methodology of Wooldridge et al. [77] and summarise work on adapting UML [54, 18, 3] As representatives ....

Carlos Iglesias, Mercedes Garijo, Jose C. Gonzalez, and Juan R. Velasco. Analysis and design of multiagent systems using MAS-CommonKADS. In M. P. Singh, A. Rao, and M. J. Wooldridge, editors, Intelligent Agents IV (LNAI Volume 1365), pages 313--326. SpringerVerlag: Berlin, Germany, 1998.

....concepts are added. The CoMoMAS methodology [7] extends CommonKADS by adding a social analysis model, identifying social competencies of agents in terms of goals, intentions, and roles; and a co operative analysis model, modeling co operation and conflict resolution methods. MASCommonKADS [10] also extends CommonKADS by adding an agent, a coordination, and an organisation model. Because of the underlying knowledgeengineering approach, however, both methodologies view an agent system as a problem solving system decomposing the system task into subtasks. In this way they identify agents ....

C. A. Iglesias, M. Garijo, J.C. Gonzalez, J.R. Velasco: "Analysis and Design of Multiagent Systems Using MAS-CommonKADS". In M.P. Singh, A. Rao, M.J. Wooldridge (eds.), Intelligent Agents IV (ATAL'97) , LNAI 1365, pages 314 -- 327. Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Germany, 1998.

....extend the applicability of OO methodologies and techniques, such as design patterns, to the design of agent systems, ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 21 CustomerServiceDivisionAgent CustomerAgent NetworkDesignAgent LegalAdvisorAgent VetCustomerAgent Figure 14. The acquaintance model ffl those such as [3, 17] which build upon and extend methodologies and modelling techniques from knowledge engineering, providing formal, compositional modelling languages suitable for the verification of system structure and function, ffl those which take existing formal methods and languages, for example Z [31] and ....

Carlos Iglesias, Mercedes Garijo, Jose C. Gonzalez, and Juan R. Velasco. Analysis and design of multiagent systems using MAS-CommonKADS. In M. P. Singh, A. Rao, and M. J. Wooldridge, editors, Intelligent Agents IV (LNAI Volume 1365), pages 313--326. Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Germany, 1998. 26 WOOLDRIDGE, JENNINGS, AND KINNY

....and information oriented agents (as are found in several Internet applications) However, since these approaches usually assume a centralised view of knowledge based systems, they fail to provide adequate models and support for the societal view of multi agent systems. The CommonKads approach [17] attempts to overcome these limitations by explicitly introducing into the methodology the abstraction of agent society. However, this simply reduces to modelling a society as a collection of interacting entities, with no identification of concepts such as social tasks or social laws. Other ....

C. Iglesias, M. Garijo, J.C. Gonzales, and J.R. Velasco. Analysis and design of multiagent systems using mas-commonkads. In Intelligent Agents IV (ATAL97), LNAI 1365, pages 313--326. Springer-Verlag, 1998.

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....of interaction protocols does not make it an agent. The second category of work aims at developing a methodology from agent theory, mainly covering analysis and design. Typically these methodologies define a number of models for both analysis and design [8] such as Gaia [6] and MAS CommonKads [7]. The Gaia methodology has two analysis models and three design models. While the analysis models are based on well defined concepts, these only represent a subset of the concepts required for agent oriented analysis. The design models are not clearly explained and the authors envisage OO methods ....

Iglesias, C., Garijo M., Gonzalez, J. and Velasco, J.R. "Analysis and Design of multiagent systems using MAS-CommonKADS". Intelligent Agents IV: Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, 1997, Singh, M. P., Rao, A. and Wooldridge, M.J., eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1365.

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