Co-evolution of i * and AgentSpeak(L) agents in agent oriented software engineering

Abstract. In this paper we use i * which is a semi-formal modelling framework to model agent based applications. We then describe how we execute these models into AgentSpeak(L) agents to form the essential components of a multi-agent system. We show that by making changes to the i * model we can generate different executable multi-agent systems. We also describe reverse mapping rules to see how changes to agents in the multi-agent system gets reflected in i * model. This co-evolution of two models offers a novel approach for configuring and prototyping agent based systems