The CoMoMAS methodology and environment for multi-agent system development

This paper presents the CoMoMAS(1) methodology and environment for the development of multi-agent systems. We use a conceptual model set to describe a multi-agent system under different views. These models are derived from the knowledge-engineering methodology CommonKADS. In contrast to CommonKADS, our approach takes several agent-specific aspects into consideration, in particular, the use of additional knowledge structures and their flexible representation to guarantee an agent's autonomy at execution time. A knowledge engineering environment has been conceived to demonstrate the feasibility of this conceptual approach. Conceptual models are represented in an extended version of the Conceptual Modeling Language (CML).