Service-Oriented Agent Methodologies

Agents and services are two concepts that more andmore are integrating and exploiting the advantages ofeach other. Agent-oriented methodologies effectivelysupport the development of agent-based system in thedifferent phases. In this paper, we explore how andhow much the most common agent-orientedmethodologies are also oriented to the development ofservices. Rather than searching for the “best”methodology, we aim at defining some evaluationcriteria and surveying the existing methodologiesconsidering such criteria