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Despite the progress in agent oriented software engineering, there is still a long way before achieving maturity. Among others, there is a lack of shared experience in evaluating the cost when developing software using the agent paradigm. This paper provides some results on this issue. It collects data from real agent based projects and gives hints for the application of existing software cost estimation models and what would be appropriate metrics for an agent based software development.
This work has been funded in part by the Spanish Council for Science and Technology under grant TIC2002-04516-C03-03.
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Gómez-Sanz, J.J., Pavón, J., Garijo, F. (2006). Estimating Costs for Agent Oriented Software. In: Müller, J.P., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI. AOSE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3950. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11752660_17
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