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A Survey of Agent-Oriented Methodologies

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Intelligent Agents V: Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL 1998)

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Abstract

This article introduces the current agent-oriented methodologies. It Discusses what approacheshave been followed (mainly extending existing objectoriented and knowledge engineering methodologies), the suitability of these approaches for agent modelling, and some conclusions drawn from the survey.

This research is funded in part by the Commission of the European Community under the ESPRIT Basic Research Project MIX: Modular Integration of Connectionist and Symbolic Processing in Knowledge Based Systems,ESPRIT-9119, and by the Spanish Government under the CICYT projects TIC91-0107 and TIC94-0139

This research was partly carried out while the first author was visiting the Dep. Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid).

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Iglesias, C.A., Garijo, M., González, J.C. (1999). A Survey of Agent-Oriented Methodologies. In: Müller, J.P., Rao, A.S., Singh, M.P. (eds) Intelligent Agents V: Agents Theories, Architectures, and Languages. ATAL 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1555. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49057-4_21

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