Agent orientation is emerging as a new software paradigm that might be able
to denote more functionality with greater quality than other paradigms such
as the object orientation. The tropos project is emerging as one of the
major proposals among Agent-Oriented Software Engineering one.Tropos has
adopted the concepts present in i* Framework. The i* framework not only
supports agent-oriented software development but also help the business
reengineering process.
Although the literature has several works on the use of i* to model several
types of domains, it is still weak on proposing a methodology to guide
systems development from the scratch. This is work aims to exactly to
tackle this problem. It proposes a methodology to guide both requirements
elicitation as well as business process re-engineering.
To validate this methodology, we are conducting one major case study to be
developed in a real case scenario, so we could experience this strategy
with real stakeholders.
We expect not only to validate the existing proposal but, more then that,
to come up with new ideas drawn from real necessities we may face during the
case study. These new ideas will be incorporated into the strategy whenever
we judge it might be the case, and through the continuous process of
designing the models,  validating them with the stakeholders, and
validating the new features added to the strategy.