Abstract
Simulating agile processes prior to adoption can reduce the risk of enacting an ill-fitting process. Agent-based simulation is wellsuited to capture the individual decision-making valued in agile. Yet, agile's lightweight nature creates simulation difficulties as agents must fill-in gaps within the specified process. Deliberative agents can do this given a suitable planning domain model. However, no such model, nor guidance for creating one, currently exists. In this work, we propose a means for constructing an agile planning domain model suitable for agent-based simulation. As such, the domain model must ensure that all activity sequences derived from the model are executable by a software agent. We prescribe iterative elaboration and decomposition of an existing process to generate successive internally-complete and-consistent domain models, thereby ensuring plans derived from the model are valid. We then demonstrate how to generate a domain model and exemplify its use in planning the actions of a single agent.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | ICSSP 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Software and System Process |
| Editors | Reda Bendraou, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, David Raffo, Huang LiGuo |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 95-99 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450352703 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 5 2017 |
| Event | 2017 International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2017 - Paris, France Duration: Jul 5 2017 → Jul 7 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series |
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| Volume | Part F128767 |
Other
| Other | 2017 International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2017 |
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| Country | France |
| City | Paris |
| Period | 7/5/17 → 7/7/17 |
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Keywords
- Domain Modeling
- Software Development Process Evaluation
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Domain modeling for development process simulation. / De Silva, Ian J.; Rayadurgam, Sanjai; Heimdahl, Mats.
ICSSP 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Software and System Process. ed. / Reda Bendraou; Fabrizio Maria Maggi; David Raffo; Huang LiGuo. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 95-99 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Part F128767).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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