Multiagent Based Methodologies have become an important subject of research in advance Software Engineering. Several methodologies have been proposed as, a theoretical approach, to facilitate and support the development of complex distributed systems. An important question when facing the construction of Agent Applications is deciding which methodology to follow. Trying to answer this question, a framework with several criteria is applied in this paper for the comparative analysis of existing

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... ltiagent system methodologies. The results of the comparative over two of them, conclude that those methodologies have not reached a sufficient maturity level to be used by the software industry. The framework has also proved its utility for the evaluation of any kind of Multiagent Based Software Engineering Methodology.