Modeling early requirements in product collaborative design with a goal and agent oriented approach

With quick development of technology, the work of product design in industries has been divided into more detailed specialties. It needs several related design teams to from a dynamic alliance and collaborate with each other to finish the task. So how to make a good notation about the task and collaborative relationships among the cooperators is becoming a key issue. It is a very important phase in the whole product collaborative designing process, named as early requirements. This paper proposes a goal and agent oriented approach (i* framework) to analyze and model early requirements of product collaborative design. The model can be translated into formal language and suitable for automatic analysis in order to verify early requirements and facilitate formal analysis in later requirements phases. Based on this goal and agent oriented approach, agent-oriented software architecture for the complex system can be modeled.