Defining Strategic Dependency Situations in Requirements Elicitation.
Antônio de Pádua Albuquerque Oliveira, Luiz Marcio Cysneiros · WER · 2006
Recently, there has been a growing interest in the Agent-oriented paradigm to cope with the needs imposed by nowadays complex and networked systems. Developing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) calls for addressing aspects such as interaction, autonomy, collaboration and pro-activeness. One way to cope with these needs is to have agency properties as well as intentionality in the center of the software development process. In this work a proposal is presented to bring intentionality and agency properties to the early stages of software development. The proposal is based on Strategic Dependency Situations (SDsituations) as a simple technique for helping requirements elicitation. Strategic Dependency Situations applies the Agent-Oriented approach based on intentionality to face the complexity of MAS developing.