OperettA: a prototype tool for the design, analysis and development of multi-agent organizations

ABSTRACT

OperettA is a graphical tool that supports the design, verification and simulation of OperA models. It ensures consistency between different design parts, provides a formal specification of the organization model, and is prepared to generate a simulation of the application domain.

REFERENCES

• 1: Virginia Dignum , Frank Dignum , John-Jules Meyer, An agent-mediated approach to the support of knowledge sharing in organizations, The Knowledge Engineering Review, v.19 n.2, p.147-174, June 2004 [doi>10.1017/S0269888904000244]
• 2: Marc Esteva , Bruno Rosell , Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar , Josep Ll. Arcos, AMELI: An Agent-Based Middleware for Electronic Institutions, Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, p.236-243, July 19-23, 2004, New York, New York [doi>10.1109/AAMAS.2004.56]
• 3: B. J. van Putten, V. Dignum, M. Sierhuis, and S. Wolfe. Integrating organizational and emergent views on agent-based modeling. In submitted, 2008.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.3 Language Constructs and Features

General Terms:
Design

Keywords:
agent organizations, software engineering, tool support