Domain Modeling for Development Process Simulation

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Domain Modeling for Development Process Simulation

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2017

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Simulating agile processes prior to adoption can reduce the risk of enacting an ill-fitting process. Agent-based simulation is well-suited 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.

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Associated research group: Critical Systems Research Group

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De Silva, Ian; Rayadurgam, Sanjai; Heimdahl, Mats. (2017). Domain Modeling for Development Process Simulation. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/217455.

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