Towards radical agent-oriented software engineering processes based on AOR modeling

Abstract

We propose an agent-oriented software engineering process, called RAP, which follows the rational unified process (RUP) in many ways, but is based on agent-object-relationship (AOR) modeling instead of object-oriented modeling. Two particular features of the proposed methodology are: it is supported by a foundational ontology, and it employs a certain form of agent-based discrete event simulation for achieving more agility in the development process.