Agent Capability: Automating the Design to Code Process

Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as well as to user needs. We are conducting research on how to build these complex systems in the context of agent-oriented software. This short paper gives an overview of our approach (described in details in [3]) which rests on a tool-supported, development process, and aims at linking stakeholder needs, elicited during domain analysis, to agent capabilities coded into