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A Systematic Review about Requirements Engineering Processes for Multi-Agent Systems

Requirements engineering is a crucial phase for the software development process, including multi-agent systems. This particular kind of software is composed by agents, autonomous and pro-active entities which can collaborate among themselves to achieve a given goal. However, multi-agent systems have some particular requirements that are not normally found in other software. Taking this into consideration, this paper aims to determine the actual state of the development processes which support requirements engineering for multiagent systems by means of a systematic review, highlighting the requirements engineering coverage and its support to the BDI model.

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A Systematic Review about Requirements Engineering Processes for Multi-Agent Systems

Semantic Scholar · Computer Science · 2021

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Requirements engineering is a crucial phase for the software development process, including multi-agent systems. This particular kind of software is composed by agents, autonomous and pro-active entities which can collaborate among themselves to achieve a given goal. However, multi-agent systems have some particular requirements that are not normally found in other software. Taking this into consideration, this paper aims to determine the actual state of the development processes which support requirements engineering for multiagent systems by means of a systematic review, highlighting the requirements engineering coverage and its support to the BDI model.

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