Issues for Organizational Multiagent Systems Development

Organizational multiagent system (OMAS) are rapidly emerging as a powerful paradigm for developing complex systems. Their development process implies specific requirements and software engineering tools. Recently a great number of methods and frameworks to develop OMAS have appeared. Each of them offers different functionality and they have distinct characteristics and perspectives. The main contribution of this paper is a comprehensive list of fundamental OMAS development issues. These issues will be a starting point to define a complete list of OMAS development requirements. From these requirements it could be possible to define an evaluation framework for OMAS development tools in order to help the developers in evaluating OMAS tools and applications.

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