Abstract:
In the context of agent-oriented methodologies, previous work has
created a number of specific method fragments for use with the OPF metamodel
and repository. These have been derived from an analysis of a large number of
stand-alone agent-oriented methodologies. In order to evaluate the feasibility of
this method engineering approach, a different AOSE methodology has been
selected so that a scientific experiment could be undertaken. The hypothesis
that the agent-enhanced OPF repository could be used without change to
engineer any other AOSE methodology was proved false since two tasks for the
creation of agents based on role modelling needed to be added to the repository.
