An Investigation of Agent Oriented Software Engineering Methodologies to Provide an Extended Methodology

The area of agent-oriented methodologies is maturing rapidly and the time has come to begin drawing together the work of various research groups with the aim of developing the next generation of agent-oriented software engineering methodologies. An important step is to understand the differences between the various key methodologies, and to understand each methodology´s strengths, weaknesses, and domains of applicability. In this paper, we perform an investigation upon user views, on four well-known methodologies. We extend Tropos, as the most complete one up on users view point, by providing a proper supportive tool for it