SWOT analysis and Implications

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SWOT analysis and Implications

• Paul Valckenaers K.U.Leuven
• Belgium

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SWOT Analysis

• FOSE MAS Niche
• core business related applications
• exhibiting variability and heterogeneity
• accounting for application specifics

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Implications (time effort)

• Capture the domain facts in software artifacts
• available before a MAS application developments
  starts
• shared development effort
• preserving agent decision space
• SE methodology for non-agent entities!
• JSD lesson has been forgotten

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Final Remarks

• Answers to the challenges must also be sought
  outside the MAS communitys comfort zone
• This comfort zone is delineated by the
  communitys definition of scientific rigor and
  its enforcement
• MAS community hospitality for pioneers?
• E.g. Be knowledgeable on brainstorming rules