Abstract: At present there is a deficiency in the field of scientific theories that support software development. On the other hand, the few existing scientific theories do not provide methodological support for all phases in software development. It is necessary to combine both aspects and develop a methodology, supported by a scientific theory, which extends these methodological support to all phases of software life cycle. The proposed Software Development methodology combines Holons and Informons theory with GAIA, a well known methodology in the field of MultiaAgent? Systems (MAS). The elements defined in scientific theory are used in the description of the software development phases included in GAIA, extending them to complete the software life cycle. Analysis, Architectural Design and Detailed Design phases of GAIA have been completed with Requirements Elicitation and Implementation phases, the latter based on the AUML standard. In this way we obtain a complete methodology supported by a scientific theory that allows develop software systems based on Holonic Integrated Systems (HIS).

Keywords: HIGAIA,HIS, HIP, Holon, Models, MAS, Software Development Methods.

ACM Classification Keywords: C.2.4 Dsitributed Systems – Distributed applications, D.2.11 Software Architectures-Languages?

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HIGAIA METHODOLOGY

A. Anguera, A. Gutierrez, M.A. Diaz

http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol18/ijita18-3-p08.pdf