Authors: Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, Juan Pavón, Rubén Fuentes
Tags: 2004, conceptual modeling
Social and intentional behaviours appear as two main components of the agent paradigm. Methods of conventional software engineering do not seem to be appropriate to gain a full knowledge of these behavioural aspects, as they are not traditional software components. Their study involves new concepts and techniques, belonging to social sciences, to be integrated into software development. In this paper we show how to use the Activity Theory as a support for current Multi-Agent System methodologies. The application of the same social concepts at every stage of the development cycle allows requirements traceability, and provides methods to describe social properties and decide whether the specification satisfies them or not. The use of the approach is shown with a case study.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-30466-1_42
