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The design of Organization-Oriented Multi-Agent Systems requires methodologies that use the agent organization as a key concept, defining concepts such as organizational goals, roles, norms, organizational services, etc., in an explicit way. GORMAS (Guidelines for Organizational Multi-agent Systems) is an Agent-Oriented Software Engineering methodology to develop Virtual Organizations that allows describing and designing Organization-Oriented Multi-Agent Systems. This methodology is composed of four phases: Mission Analysis, Service Analysis, Organizational Design and Organization Dynamics Design. Moreover, it is supported by a specific metamodel, named Virtual Organization Model, which defines five organizational dimensions, by which an agent organization can be specified: Structural, Functional, Dynamical, Environment and Normative. This chapter describes the four phases of the GORMAS methodology, following the template developed within the FIPA Design Process Documentation and Fragmentation working group. Thus, the activities developed on each phase, and the products generated during the whole process are detailed.
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This work was supported by TIN2009-13839-C03-01 and TIN2012-36586-C03-01 projects of the Spanish government, and CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 under grant CSD2007-00022.
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Esparcia, S., Argente, E., Julián, V., Botti, V. (2014). GORMAS: A Methodological Guideline for Organizational-Oriented Open MAS. In: Cossentino, M., Hilaire, V., Molesini, A., Seidita, V. (eds) Handbook on Agent-Oriented Design Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39975-6_7
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