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Allocating Goals to Agent Roles During MAS Requirements Engineering

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Allocation of goal responsibilities to agent roles in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) influence the degree to which these systems satisfy nonfunctional requirements. This paper proposes a systematic approach that starts from nonfunctional requirements identification and moves towards agent role definition guided by the degree of nonfunctional requirements satisfaction. The approach relies on goal-dependencies to allow potential MAS vulnerabilities to be studied. In contrast to related work where organizational patterns are imposed on MAS, roles are constructed first, allowing MAS organizational structures to emerge from role definitions.

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  1. Information Management Research Unit (IMRU), University of Namur, 8 Rempart de la Vierge, B-5000 Namur, Belgium

    Ivan J. Jureta & Stéphane Faulkner

  2. Institut d’Informatique, University of Namur, 8 Rempart de la Vierge, B-5000 Namur, Belgium

    Pierre-Yves Schobbens

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Jureta, I.J., Faulkner, S., Schobbens, PY. (2007). Allocating Goals to Agent Roles During MAS Requirements Engineering. In: Padgham, L., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VII. AOSE 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70945-9_2

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