Developmental approaches for Agent Oriented system — A critical review

Agent Oriented Paradigm is inheritor of Object Oriented Paradigm. The concept of agent is evolved from artificial intelligence. Agents are social, proactive, and reactive in nature. Agent Oriented methodologies are used to develop the agent oriented software. Agent Oriented methodologies follows the phases of software development life cycle. In this paper, prominent methodologies like Gaia, MaSE, Tropos and others are discussed. All methodologies do not follow all phases of software development life cycle. These methodologies are discussed on the basis of their working pattern. A comparative study is done among methodologies on different parameters. A result is derived that all methodologies are helpful in different scenarios.