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A NOVEL APPROACH OF REQUIREMENT GATHERING AND ANALYSIS FOR AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (AOSE)

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad-211004, Uttar Pradesh, India

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A. K. MISRA

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad-211004, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Abstract

In this paper, an agent-based open and adaptive system development process has been proposed which continuously change and evolve to meet new requirements. The proposed methodology is based on a model-based technique that provides a specific model for the type of information to be gathered and uses this model to drive the domain specific analysis process. The focus is on a clear separtion between the requirement gathering and analysis phases. The analysis methodology further splits the analysis phase into the user_centric analysis and the system_centric analysis phases. Optimization of the system performance has also been proposed by exploiting the relationships and dependencies among roles and mapping criteria between roles to agents. The Gaia and ROADMAP models have been used as a basis to the proposed agent-based modeling method.

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