Agent-oriented Requirements Modelling

A standard way of describing requirements for system design is according to function. One describes high level functions of the operation of the system and decomposes these into lower level functions which perhaps overlap. For complex systems the number of functions can be large and they may interact, making it important to have a methodical way of describing the structure of functions and their interactions. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering methodology addresses complex systems by three strategies: decomposition, abstraction, and organization. This is a useful and effective way to solve problems because it gives one a clear way to decompose the problem into agents. In addition, an agent-based system is endowed with some degree of automation and self-adaptation in that agents are autonomous entities and they are “intelligent ” in some aspects. This makes the system more flexible and robust. In this paper, we demonstrate our belief that, agent technology, with it