An Ontology-based Methodology for Multiagent Domain Engineering

Considerable advances on the systematization of the agent-oriented development paradigm have been achieved and several techniques, methodologies and software development environments are already available for the development of multi-agent applications. However, little work has been done on the development of techniques and methodologies for the construction of high-level reusable software abstractions in this development paradigm. This work summarizes main tasks and generated products of MADEM, an ontology-based methodology for the construction of reusable software artifacts in a process of multi-agent domain engineering