“…To answer the second question we need to quantify the claimed added value in using simulation for MAS development through actual experimentations covering the whole software development life cycle of MASs: requirements capture, analysis, design, implementation, deployment and testing. To date a few MAS development processes have been proposed in the literature, such as Electronic Institutions (Sierra et al, 2004), DynDEVS/James (Rohl and Uhrmacher, 2004), CaseLP (Martelli et al, 1999), GAIA/MASSIMO (Fortino et al, 2005b), TuCSon/pi (Gardelli et al, 2005) and Joint Measure (Sarjoughian et al, 2001), which incorporate simulation to support the design phase of the MAS development life cycle, with the main focus on the validation and performance evaluation of the designed MAS model. However, to quantify the benefits of using simulation for MAS development, further research work needs to be carried out in the aforementioned direction and in further directions encompassing all the phases of the MAS development life cycle.…”