A software engineering process for BDI agent-based systems

Author

Zhang, Tiemei Irene ; Kendall, Elizabeth ; Jiang, Harvey

Author_Institution

Sch. of Network Comput., Monash Univ., Frankston, Vic., Australia

fYear

2003

fDate

13-16 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

392

Lastpage

399

Abstract

Extensive research for BDI (belief, desire, intention) agents has been carried out. To employ BDI agents in an application such as life cycle costs (LCC) information gathering, a methodology is required to analyze, design and specify agents from system requirements. Although some methodologies are available for development of agent-based systems, none provide a systematic approach for BDI agent-based systems involving all phases of the software development life cycle, especially for addressing agent specifications. This paper exploits synergy across different research areas such as use cases, BDI agents, role models, and IDEF, and proposes a methodology for BDI agent-based systems. This methodology presents a step-by-step process for agent-oriented software engineering. This process has been applied to designing a BDI agent-based information gathering system for LCC.

Keywords

belief maintenance; formal specification; knowledge engineering; life cycle costing; software agents; agent specifications; agent-oriented software engineering; belief desire intention agent-based system; life cycle cost information gathering; software development life cycle; system requirements; Intelligent agent; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Agent Technology, 2003. IAT 2003. IEEE/WIC International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1931-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAT.2003.1241107

Filename

1241107