Goal based agent-oriented software modeling

This paper presents a goal based modeling method for an agent-oriented software system. In modeling research for agent-oriented software, problems often emerged in that the properties of an agent system were not efficiently reflected in the development phase (analysis, design, etc.), because the techniques based on the other software paradigm are adopted to develop agent-oriented software. The result of analysis differs depending on which paradigm is used. An agent is goal-oriented, which necessitates a shift in paradigm. Therefore, the modeling method for an agent system should start from the concept of goal.