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Requirements elicitation is the first stage of the requirements engineering, and it is essential to discover the stakeholders’ needs for any software, including multi-agent systems. This particular kind of software is composed by agents, autonomous and pro-active entities, which can collaborate among themselves to achieve a given goal. However, multi-agent systems have some particular requirements that are not normally found in other software. Taking this into consideration, this paper aims to determine the actual state of the elicitation techniques for multi-agent systems by means of a systematic review, highlighting how these techniques work, their strengths and weaknesses and its support to the BDI model.
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Gerstberger, W.S., de Souza Filho, I.P., Guedes, G.T.A. (2022). A Systematic Review About Requirements Elicitation for Multi-Agent Systems. In: Jezic, G., Chen-Burger, YH.J., Kusek, M., Šperka, R., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications 2022. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 306. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3359-2_22
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