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Due to their autonomy and social behavior, agents will play important roles in future emerging enterprises. They will fill key positions and provide essential capabilities. We propose role modelling as a software engineering technique for specifying, analyzing, and designing systems on the basis of the roles that the agents will play. Our approach builds on our earlier research in patterns [4], [5] of agent systems. Object-oriented role models can be extended to represent patterns of agent interaction that can then be employed to engineer agent systems.
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Kendall, E.A. (2001). Agent Software Engineering with Role Modelling. In: Ciancarini, P., Wooldridge, M.J. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. AOSE 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1957. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44564-1_10
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