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The O-MASE Methodology

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Today’s software industry is tasked with building evermore complex software applications, and multiagent system technology is a promising approach capable of meeting these new demands. Unfortunately, multiagent systems have not been widely adopted in industry for reasons that include lack of industrial strength methods and tools to support multiagent development. Method engineering, an approach to constructing processes from a set of existing method fragments, has been suggested as a solution to this problem. This chapter presents the Organization-based Multiagent Software Engineering (O-MaSE) methodology framework, which integrates a set of concrete technologies aimed at facilitating industrial acceptance. Specifically, O-MaSE is a customizable agent-oriented methodology based on consistent, well-defined concepts supported by plug-ins to an industrial strength development environment, agentTool III. O-MaSE is defined, and demonstrations of customizing O-MaSE for the CMS problem as well applying the customized process to the CMS design are presented.

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  1. Kansas State University, 234 Nichols Hall, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA

    Scott A. DeLoach

  2. Facultad de Ingenieria de Sistemas, Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga, Avenida 42 No 48-11, El Jardin., Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia

    Juan C. Garcia-Ojeda

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  1. ICAR-CNR, Palermo, Italy

    Massimo Cossentino

  2. University of Technology of Belfort Montbéliard, Belfort cedex, France

    Vincent Hilaire

  3. Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Ambra Molesini

  4. DICGIM, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Valeria Seidita

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DeLoach, S.A., Garcia-Ojeda, J.C. (2014). The O-MASE Methodology. In: Cossentino, M., Hilaire, V., Molesini, A., Seidita, V. (eds) Handbook on Agent-Oriented Design Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39975-6_9

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