O-MaSE: A Customizable Approach to Developing Multiagent Development Processes

This paper describes the Organization-based MultiagentSystem Engineering (O-MaSE) Process Framework, which helps processengineers define custom multiagent systems development processes.O-MaSE builds off the MaSE methodology and is adapted from theOPEN Process Framework (OPF). OPF implements a Method Engineeringapproach to process construction. The goal of O-MaSE is to allowdesigners to create customized agent-oriented software development processes.O-MaSE consists of three basic structures: (1) a metamodel, (2)a set of methods fragments, and (3) a set of guidelines. The O-MaSE metamodel defines the key concepts needed to design and implementmultiagent systems. The method fragments are operations or tasks thatare executed to produce a set of work products, which may include models,documents, or code. The guidelines define how the method fragmentsare related to one another. The paper also shows two O-MaSE processexamples.

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