Abstract
Agent technologies and agent-oriented design have caught a lot of attention in the software engineering community. However, there has not been a single methodology emerged to become a mainstream approach widely adopted by practitioners. A multi-agent system architecture based on semiotics was proposed in this paper. This approach used a uniform multi-agent model throughout the software development life cycle, from analysis up to implementation without the use of special agent environment nor toolkits. Examples and a case study were used to illustrate the building of multi-agent systems using of the architecture after a brief introduction is presented about how semiotics could be applied in information systems engineering.
