Agent-oriented analysis and modeling

Abstract

Traditional requirements engineering (RE) are facing challenge. With the continuous change of application environment and software market, as well as the development of new design approaches (e.g. software architecture and component-based software engineering), RE should also move its eyes from product-oriented and function-centered view to problem-domain-oriented and structure-centered view. In this paper we proposed a new analysis and modeling approach : Agent-Oriented Approach (AOA). AOA is problem-domain-oriented and implementation-independent. It searches for a solution strategy for a families of problems rather than a special software requirements specification(SRS). It focuses on entities with active behavior in problem domain and pay attention to their interaction. It can describe parallel and distributed entities commonly existing in problem domains and it is more stable and reuseful than SRS.