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The tropos software development methodology: processes, models and diagrams

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International Conference on Autonomous Agents archive
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1 table of contents

Bologna, Italy

SESSION: Session 1A: agent oriented software engineering table of contents

Pages: 35 - 36

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN:1-58113-480-0

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Fausto Giunchiglia	DIT University of Trento, Trento-Povo, Italy
John Mylopoulos	CS Dept. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Anna Perini	ITC-Irst, Trento-Povo, Italy

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SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Tropos is a novel agent-oriented software development methodology founded on two key features: (i) the notions of agent, goal, plan and other knowledge level concepts are used uniformly throughout the software development process; and (ii) a crucial role is assigned to requirements analysis and specification when the system-to-be is analyzed with respect to its intended environment. This short paper outlines basic elements of the Tropos methodology: the conceptual framework and the analysis process through which design flows from external to system actors through a goal analysis and delegation.

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