%0 Journal Article %1 Khallouf:2009:ijaose %A Khallouf, Jason %A Winikoff, Michael %D 2009 %J Int'l J. of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering %K imported thesis %N 1 %P 88--112 %R 10.1504/IJAOSE.2009.022947 %T The goal-oriented design of agent systems: A refinement of Prometheus and its evaluation %V 3 %X The initial step of any software engineering methodology is to form requirements. Recently, a goal-oriented approach to requirements has been proposed and argued to be beneficial. Goals also play a key role in the implementation of proactive software agents. However, although some agent-oriented software engineering methodologies have incorporated (aspects of) goal-oriented requirements engineering and although they target agent platforms that provide goals as an implementation construct, none of the methodologies provide a goal-oriented design process. We present three modifications to the Prometheus methodology, which aim to make it more goal-oriented in its design phases: we introduce a goal coupling diagram as an adjunct to the existing data coupling diagram, we modify the temporal design artefacts to include goals and we introduce a number of goal-related consistency checks. Finally, we report on an experimental evaluation comparing the effectiveness of the original and refined methodologies.

@article{Khallouf:2009:ijaose, abstract = {The initial step of any software engineering methodology is to form requirements. Recently, a goal-oriented approach to requirements has been proposed and argued to be beneficial. Goals also play a key role in the implementation of proactive software agents. However, although some agent-oriented software engineering methodologies have incorporated (aspects of) goal-oriented requirements engineering and although they target agent platforms that provide goals as an implementation construct, none of the methodologies provide a goal-oriented design process. We present three modifications to the Prometheus methodology, which aim to make it more goal-oriented in its design phases: we introduce a goal coupling diagram as an adjunct to the existing data coupling diagram, we modify the temporal design artefacts to include goals and we introduce a number of goal-related consistency checks. Finally, we report on an experimental evaluation comparing the effectiveness of the original and refined methodologies.}, added-at = {2017-03-16T11:50:55.000+0100}, author = {Khallouf, Jason and Winikoff, Michael}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ca92f935ece0d3e76da56d6da5283d5c/krevelen}, doi = {10.1504/IJAOSE.2009.022947}, interhash = {b354c40734b2e47ee8d57b5851625f90}, intrahash = {ca92f935ece0d3e76da56d6da5283d5c}, journal = {Int'l J. of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering}, keywords = {imported thesis}, number = 1, owner = {Rick}, pages = {88--112}, timestamp = {2017-03-16T11:54:14.000+0100}, title = {The goal-oriented design of agent systems: A refinement of {Prometheus} and its evaluation}, volume = 3, year = 2009 }