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The complexity of the information systems has recently had a
remarkable increase, mostly thanks to the enormous impact that it
has had in the multi-agent system (MAS) area; hence the need to
integrate two systems and obtain an IS that takes advantage of the
potentialities of the MAS. To this purpose, a methodology to
analyze and design a multi-agent system is needed. In order to
define such a methodology, which should take into account all the
aspects of the MAS, first we need to establish not only a
conceptual model of the system but also a communication level
model. In this paper we propose the use of DDS framework for the
communication level and the use of the BWW ontology for
representation and design of the domain knowledge base. The idea
of the above-mentioned methodology was conceived in the
SISTDE project, which uses the ontology for the description of the
domain, so as to provide the agents with a knowledge base that
concurs to define their behaviour according to external events. In
addition to this, the experience we have matured in the IS
modelling using the BWW ontology is a key-point of our
approach.
