A Methodological Proposal for Multiagent Systems Development Extending CommonKADS

The application of agent technology to real applications needs the development of a methodologywhich supports all the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of an agent based system including itsmanagement. This paper proposes an extension of CommonKADS for fitting the characteristics of theagent approach into the SDLC and the definition of a new model, the coordination model, for describingthe coordination protocols.1