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Agents and multi-agent systems are currently one of the most interesting research fields in the computer science community; especially the natural way of capturing the structure and the behavior of complex systems has stimulated this huge interest Lind (Issues in agent-oriented software engineering, 2000). As this paradigm advance, systematic methods are needed to support the development of multi-agent systems. General approaches for identifying, modeling, and analyzing user requirements for specific multi-agent software systems based on goal models have been suggested DeLoach (Multiagent systems engineering a methodology and language for designing agent systems, 1999), Tveit (A survey of agent-oriented software engineering, 2001). Nonetheless, those approaches suffer from rigidity and complexity for a customer to validate and review his needs as gathered by business analyst. In this paper, we present an agile requirements engineering approach to model multi-agent system requirements in the form of agent stories capturing skills and capabilities from the agent perspective. The agent stories can then be estimated, prioritized and traced separately. To illustrate the approach benefits, a Weapon Mass Destructive (WMD) system example is presented. The example is also used to compare our suggested approach with a goal-based one.
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Dahhane, W., Berrich, J., Bouchentouf, T. (2016). Agent Story: An Agile Requirements Modeling Approach for Multi-agent Paradigm. In: El Oualkadi, A., Choubani, F., El Moussati, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Information & Communication Technologies 2015. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 381. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30298-0_38
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