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Incorporating Elements from the Prometheus Agent-Oriented Methodology in the OPEN Process Framework

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Agent-Oriented Information Systems II (AOIS 2004)

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As part of an extensive research programme to combine the benefits of method engineering and existing object-oriented frameworks (notably the OPEN Process Framework or OPF) to create a highly supportive methodological environment for the construction of agent-oriented information systems, we have analysed here contributions to the OPF repository of method fragments from the Prometheus agent-oriented methodology. We have identified three new Tasks, together with two new subtasks for a pre-existing Task and one additional Technique. Prometheus has also supplied the OPF with four new Work Products but no additional Roles or Stages.

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    Paolo Bresciani

  2. DISI, University of Trento, 38100, Povo, Trento, Italy

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  3. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, 2000, Broadway, NSW, Australia

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Henderson-Sellers, B., Tran, QN.N., Debenham, J. (2005). Incorporating Elements from the Prometheus Agent-Oriented Methodology in the OPEN Process Framework. In: Bresciani, P., Giorgini, P., Henderson-Sellers, B., Low, G., Winikoff, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Information Systems II. AOIS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3508. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11426714_10

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