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Agent OPEN offers extensions of an object-oriented methodological framework to support agent-oriented software developments. However, to date, it is incomplete. Here, we extend the Agent OPEN repository of process components to include contributions from the Gaia agent-oriented methodology. We have identified one new Task, together with six new subtasks for some pre-existing Tasks. Three extra Techniques and five new Work Products were identified and recommended to be added in order to support the Gaia approach for agent-oriented software development.
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Henderson-Sellers, B., Debenham, J., Tran, Q.N.N. (2004). Adding Agent-Oriented Concepts Derived from Gaia to Agent OPEN. In: Persson, A., Stirna, J. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3084. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25975-6_9
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