A dependency based framework for the evaluation of agent oriented methodologies

Agent oriented methodologies have become one of the most important issues of software development. Several methodologies have been proposed to guide developers through various stages of agent based system development. Deciding which methodology to select in a specific case is a critical problem. This paper presents a framework to evaluate complexity of agent oriented methodologies with a quantitative approach. This framework focuses on the lifecycle of a methodology. The proposed models of the methodology and overall process of its lifecycle is discussed thoughtfully and the complexity of the entire methodology lifecycle is calculated. This method of evaluation will be applied to several agent oriented methodologies and finally the comparison among complexity of the proposed methodologies will be performed.