FOUNDATION OF CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES No Year Manuscripts Adam CZARNECKI, Cezary ORŁOWSKI, Tomasz SITEK, Artur ZIÓŁKOWSKI * INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT USING A FUNCTIONAL PROTOTYPE OF THE AGENT BASED SYSTEM In the paper we present the progress of works related with the agent-based system serving the purpose of information technology assessment. Currently this is a prototype including agents, the knowledge base and the ontology; the domain incorporated by the assessment— enterprise managing technologies with special attention paid to technologies directed to IT projects. In this paper, besides indication of expected functionalities special emphasis is put on verification of prototype correctness. The purpose of such verification is to have the set of experiments related to assessment of basic functionalities, next adding new functionality and new context. As this paper is part of the series describing created system (the work name: MAS_IT) and due to limited place assigned for the paper the authors wish to direct all those who are interested in this issue to the bibliography items [5, 6, 7] quoted in the paper. agent systems, knowledge, ontology, information technology, project management 1. INTRODUCTION The presented paper is the continuation of series of articles concerning researches upon information technologies and is the example of application of multi-agent system conception for the assessment of information technologies. This conception has been elaborated in Department of Information Technology Management of Gdańsk University of Technology in 2007 and has been developed successively (see: [5, 6, 7]). 2. THE NEED OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT Increasing demand of companies for information systems/ technologies makes that management of information technologies an important field of activities of * Gdańsk University Of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics, Department of Information Technology Management