Commercial experience with agent-oriented software engineering

Although there have been a number of attempts at defining agent-oriented design methodologies, none of these have been proven successful in industrial use. Over a two year period the author was involved in a variety of commercial projects and proofs-of-concept using a product that offered an enterprise-quality implementation of BDI-agent principles. During that time, a methodology was developed to make the most effective use of the product. This paper describes the essential-features of the methodology and records the results of its successful use in five selected projects in very different application domains.