Title: The ASEME methodology

Authors: Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis; Pavlos Moraitis

Addresses: Applied Mathematics and Computers Laboratory, School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, University Campus, 73100, Chania, Greece ' Laboratory of Informatics Paris Descartes (LIPADE), University of Paris, 45 rue des Saints-Peres, 75006, Paris, France; Argument Theory, 37 rue de Lyon, 75012, Paris, France

Abstract: In this paper, we present a complete view of an agent-oriented software engineering methodology called agent systems engineering methodology (ASEME). Several parts of the methodology concerning different aspects of the whole development process have already been published in the past in several papers. However, our goal in this paper is to provide a global view on the methodology by providing information about the agent (and multi-agent systems) development process along with recent works concerning the tools that we have developed in order to facilitate the use of ASEME by agent systems developers. We also provide some information on the different practical applications that we have developed using ASEME and which prove that ASEME is very well suited for the development of real world applications.

Keywords: software engineering; agent-oriented software engineering; AOSE; intelligent agents; multi-agent systems; methodologies; software process; model-driven engineering.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAOSE.2022.122600

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, 2022 Vol.7 No.2, pp.79 - 107

Accepted: 22 Jun 2020
Published online: 04 May 2022 *

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