The Gaia methodology: basic concepts and extensions

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Title: The Gaia methodology: basic concepts and extensions
Author(s): Cernuzzi, Luca; Juan, Thomas; Sterling, Leon; Zambonelli, Franco
Abstract: Gaia (Wooldridge et al., 2000b) was the first complete methodology proposed for the analysis and design of MAS. However, the original version of Gaia suffered from the limitations of being suitable for the analysis and design of closed MAS and of adopting non-standard notation techniques. Several extensions to the basic Gaia methodology have been recently proposed to overcome these limitations. In this chapter, we summarize the key characteristics of the original Gaia methodology and present three extensions that have been proposed to improve Gaia and make it more suitable for the development of open MAS in complex environments.
Publication type: Book chapter
Source: Multiagent systems, artificial societies, and simulated organizations: methodologies and software engineering for agent systems: the agent-oriented software engineering handbook / Federico Bergenti, Marie-Pierre Gleizes and Franco Zambonelli (eds.), vol. 11, chapter 4, pp. 69-88
Publication year: 2004
Keyword(s): GAIA methodology; MAS; Multiagent systems
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781402080579, 1402080573
Publisher URL: http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-1-4020-8057-9
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