Early Requirement Guidelines for Multiagent System Modeling

The specification of a Multiagent System (MAS) is a complex problem. In the specialized literature, there are many MAS methodologies, but almost all of them lack an early requirement phase in which the initial key elements of the system are identified. In this paper, we propose some guidelines for the early requirement specification of MAS based on the Decomposition Theory of complex systems. These guidelines will help the software engineer to build an initial MAS structure defined by roles, goals, and role relations. Moreover, our approach can be used to define an early requirement phase in any MAS methodology.