Eclipse-based Prometheus Design Tool

The Prometheus Design Tool (PDT) is a graphical tool that is used to design a Multi-Agent System following the Prometheus Methodology. This paper describes the latest version of PDT which is now integrated into the Eclipse platform, enabling the users to accomplish the full development life-cycle of an agent-oriented application in one IDE and also inherit the rich set of product development features that Eclipse provides. This version of PDT also aims to support simpler integration with tools from other AOSE methodologies where appropriate.

Authors

• Hongyuan Sun
• John Thangarajah
• Lin Padgham RMIT University; Patrick Lambrix

Keywords

• Agent Software Engineering
• Agent development techniques
• tools and environments
• Development environments