Abstract:
The growth of interest in agent-orientation as a new paradigm
has introduced the need for developing concepts, tools and techniques for
modeling and engineering agent-based software systems. Object technology
has been supporting the development of information systems for
many years but is now slowly evolving to encompass more recent ideas
relating to the concept of "agent". Integrating agent concepts into existing
00 methodologies has resulted in several agent-oriented methodologies,
one of which is Agent OPEN. In this paper, we evaluate the
existing Agent OPEN description against ideas formulated within Tropos,
an agent-oriented software development methodology.
