Comparing agent-oriented methodologies using NFR approach
C. Silva · 2004
There is an ever-increasing demand for standard software systems to operate in increasingly complex application environments. Hence, agent-orientation appears as a well-suited paradigm for building such systems. Although several methodologies have been proposed for agent-oriented development, its difficult to evaluate them because they usually differ in their premises, covered phases, models, concepts and the supported multi-agent system properties. In this paper, we show that the NFR (Non-Functional Requirements) framework is useful to describe properties of agent-oriented systems as well as to evaluate well-known methodologies supporting them. Moreover, other-methodological aspects are used as criteria to analyse and compare these methodologies. A comparison between GAIA and Tropos is shown as an illustration of our proposal.