Agent Oriented Software Engineering Ix

Author : Michael Luck,Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 301 pages
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Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642013379

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX by Michael Luck,Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz Pdf

Software architectures that contain many dynamically interacting components, each with its own thread of control, engaging in complex coordination protocols, are difficult to correctly and efficiently engineer. Agent-oriented modelling techniques are important for the design and development of such applications. This book provides a diverse and interesting overview of the work that is currently being undertaken by a growing number of researchers in the area of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. The papers represent a state-of-the-art report of current research in this field, which is of critical importance in facilitating industry take-up of powerful agent technologies. This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2008, held in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008 as part of AAMAS 2008. The 20 revised full papers were carefully selected from 50 initial submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers have been organized into four sections on: multi-agent organizations, method engineering and software development processes, testing and debugging, as well as tools and case studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2009
Category : Intelligent agents (Computer software)
ISBN : 8364201336

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Agent-oriented Software Engineering IX by Anonim Pdf

Software architectures that contain many dynamically interacting components, each with its own thread of control, engaging in complex coordination protocols, are difficult to correctly and efficiently engineer. Agent-oriented modelling techniques are important for the design and development of such applications. This book provides a diverse and interesting overview of the work that is currently being undertaken by a growing number of researchers in the area of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. The papers represent a state-of-the-art report of current research in this field, which is of critical importance in facilitating industry take-up of powerful agent technologies. This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2008, held in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008 as part of AAMAS 2008. The 20 revised full papers were carefully selected from 50 initial submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers have been organized into four sections on: multi-agent organizations, method engineering and software development processes, testing and debugging, as well as tools and case studies.

Author : Michael Luck,Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642013392

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX by Michael Luck,Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz Pdf

Software architectures that contain many dynamically interacting components, each with its own thread of control, engaging in complex coordination protocols, are difficult to correctly and efficiently engineer. Agent-oriented modelling techniques are important for the design and development of such applications. This book provides a diverse and interesting overview of the work that is currently being undertaken by a growing number of researchers in the area of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. The papers represent a state-of-the-art report of current research in this field, which is of critical importance in facilitating industry take-up of powerful agent technologies. This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2008, held in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008 as part of AAMAS 2008. The 20 revised full papers were carefully selected from 50 initial submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers have been organized into four sections on: multi-agent organizations, method engineering and software development processes, testing and debugging, as well as tools and case studies.

Author : Federico Bergenti,Marie-Pierre Gleizes,Franco Zambonelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781402080586

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Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems by Federico Bergenti,Marie-Pierre Gleizes,Franco Zambonelli Pdf

As information technologies become increasingly distributed and accessible to larger number of people and as commercial and government organizations are challenged to scale their applications and services to larger market shares, while reducing costs, there is demand for software methodologies and appli- tions to provide the following features: Richer application end-to-end functionality; Reduction of human involvement in the design and deployment of the software; Flexibility of software behaviour; and Reuse and composition of existing software applications and systems in novel or adaptive ways. When designing new distributed software systems, the above broad requi- ments and their translation into implementations are typically addressed by partial complementarities and overlapping technologies and this situation gives rise to significant software engineering challenges. Some of the challenges that may arise are: determining the components that the distributed applications should contain, organizing the application components, and determining the assumptions that one needs to make in order to implement distributed scalable and flexible applications, etc.

Author : Onn Shehory,Arnon Sturm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642544323

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering by Onn Shehory,Arnon Sturm Pdf

With this book, Onn Shehory and Arnon Sturm, together with further contributors, introduce the reader to various facets of agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE). They provide a selected collection of state-of-the-art findings, which combines research from information systems, artificial intelligence, distributed systems and software engineering and covers essential development aspects of agent-based systems. The book chapters are organized into five parts. The first part introduces the AOSE domain in general, including introduction to agents and the peculiarities of software engineering for developing MAS. The second part describes general aspects of AOSE, like architectural models, design patterns and communication. Next, part three discusses AOSE methodologies and associated research directions and elaborates on Prometheus, O-MaSE and INGENIAS. Part four then addresses agent-oriented programming languages. Finally, the fifth part presents studies related to the implementation of agents and multi-agent systems. The book not only provides a comprehensive review of design approaches for specifying agent-based systems, but also covers implementation aspects such as communication, standards and tools and environments for developing agent-based systems. It is thus of interest to researchers, practitioners and students who are interested in exploring the agent paradigm for developing software systems.

Author : Danny Weyns,Marie-Pierre Gleizes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642226366

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XI by Danny Weyns,Marie-Pierre Gleizes Pdf

Since the mid 1980s, software agents and multi-agent systems have grown into a very active area of research and also commercial development activity. One of the limiting factors in industry take-up of agent-technology, however, is the lack of adequate software engineering support. The Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Workshop, AOSE, focuses on the synergies and cross fertilization between software engineering and agent research. This volume presents both thoroughly revised selected papers from the AOSE 2010 workshop held at AAMAS 2010 in Toronto, Canada in May 2010 as well as invited articles by leading researchers in the field. The papers cover a broad range of topics related to software engineering and agent-based systems, with particular attention to the integration of concepts and techniques from multi-agent systems with conventional engineering approaches on the one hand, and to the integration of agent-oriented software engineering and methodologies with conventional engineering processes on the other hand.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Artech House
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computer software
ISBN : 1580536069

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Agent-Based Software Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paolo Ciancarini,Michael Wooldridge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540445647

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering by Paolo Ciancarini,Michael Wooldridge Pdf

One of the most important reasons for the current intensity of interest in agent technology is that the concept of an agent, as an autonomous system capable of interacting with other agents in order to satisfy its design objectives, is a natural one for software designers. Just as we can understand many systems as being composed of essentially passive objects, which have a state and upon which we can perform operations, so we can understand many others as being made up of interacting semi-autonomous agents. This book brings together revised versions of papers presented at the First International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2000, held in Limerick, Ireland, in conjunction with ICSE 2000, and several invited papers. As a comprehensive and competent overview of agent-oriented software engineering, the book addresses software engineers interested in the new paradigm and technology as well as research and development professionals active in agent technology.

Author : Michael J. Wooldridge,Gerhard Weiß,Paolo Ciancarini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540706571

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II by Michael J. Wooldridge,Gerhard Weiß,Paolo Ciancarini Pdf

Since the 1980s, software agents and multi-agent systems have grown into what is now one of the most active areas of research and development activity in computing generally. One of the most important reasons for the current intensity of interest in the agent-based computing paradigm certainly is that the concept of an agent as an autonomous system, capable of interacting with other agents in order to satisfy its design objectives, is a natural one for software designers. This recognition has led to the growth of interest in agents as a new paradigm for software engineering. This book reflects the state of the art in the field by presenting 14 revised full papers accepted for the second workshop on this topic, AOSE 2001, together with five invited survey articles. The book offers topical sections on societies and organizations, protocols and interaction frameworks, UML and agent systems, agent-oriented requirements capture and specification, and analysis and design.

Author : Jörg Müller,Massimo Cossentino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642398667

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XIII by Jörg Müller,Massimo Cossentino Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 13th Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) workshop, held at the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2012, in Valencia, Spain, in June 2012. This volume presents 9 thoroughly revised papers selected from 24 submissions as well as two invited articles by leading researchers in the field. The papers cover a broad range of topics related to software engineering of agent-based systems, with particular attention to the integration of concepts and techniques from multi-agent systems with recent programming languages, platforms, and established software engineering methodologies.

Author : Ricardo Choren,Alessandro Garcia,Carlos Lucena,Alexander Romanovsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540318460

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Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III by Ricardo Choren,Alessandro Garcia,Carlos Lucena,Alexander Romanovsky Pdf

This book presents a coherent and well-balanced survey of recent advances in software engineering approaches to the design and analysis of realistic large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS). The chapters included are devoted to various techniques and methods used to cope with the complexity of real-world MAS. The power of agent-based software engineering is illustrated using examples that are representative of successful applications. The 16 thoroughly reviewed and revised full papers are organized in topical sections on agent methodologies and processes, requirements engineering and software architectures, modeling languages, and dependability and coordination. Most of the papers were initially presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems, SELMAS 2004, held in Edinburgh, UK in May 2004 in association with ICSE 2004. Other papers were invited to complete coverage of all relevant aspects.

Author : James Odell,Paolo Giorgini,Jörg, P. Müller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540242864

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering V by James Odell,Paolo Giorgini,Jörg, P. Müller Pdf

The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, ent- prise resource planning and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly changed our views on software systems. Nowadays, software is to be based on open architectures that continuously change and evolve to accommodate new components and meet new requirements. Software must also operate on di?- ent platforms, without recompilation, and with minimal assumptions about its operating environment and its users. Furthermore, software must be robust and ̈ autonomous, capable of serving a naive user with a minimum of overhead and interference. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of software systems. They o?er higher-level abstractions and mechanisms which address issues such as knowledge representation and reasoning, communication, coordination, cooperation among heterogeneous and autonomous parties, p- ception, commitments, goals, beliefs, and intentions, all of which need conceptual modelling. On the one hand, the concrete implementation of these concepts can lead to advanced functionalities, e.g., in inference-based query answering, tra- action control, adaptive work?ows, brokering and integration of disparate inf- mation sources, and automated communication processes. On the other hand, their rich representational capabilities allow more faithful and ?exible treatments of complex organizational processes, leading to more e?ective requirements an- ysis and architectural/detailed design.

Author : Massimo Cossentino,Vincent Hilaire,Ambra Molesini,Valeria Seidita
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642399756

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Handbook on Agent-Oriented Design Processes by Massimo Cossentino,Vincent Hilaire,Ambra Molesini,Valeria Seidita Pdf

To deal with the flexible architectures and evolving functionalities of complex modern systems, the agent metaphor and agent-based computing are often the most appropriate software design approach. As a result, a broad range of special-purpose design processes has been developed in the last several years to tackle the challenges of these specific application domains. In this context, in early 2012 the IEEE-FIPA Design Process Documentation Template SC0097B was defined, which facilitates the representation of design processes and method fragments through the use of standardized templates, thus supporting the creation of easily sharable repositories and facilitating the composition of new design processes. Following this standardization approach, this book gathers the documentations of some of the best-known agent-oriented design processes. After an introductory section, describing the goal of the book and the existing IEEE FIPA standard for design process documentation, thirteen processes (including the widely known Open UP, the de facto standard in object-oriented software engineering) are documented by their original creators or other well-known scientists working in the field. As a result, this is the first work to adopt a standard, unified descriptive approach for documenting different processes, making it much easier to study the individual processes, to rigorously compare them, and to apply them in industrial projects. While there are a few books on the market describing the individual agent-oriented design processes, none of them presents all the processes, let alone in the same format. With this handbook, for the first time, researchers as well as professional software developers looking for an overview as well as for detailed and standardized descriptions of design processes will find a comprehensive presentation of the most important agent-oriented design processes, which will be an invaluable resource when developing solutions in various application areas.

Author : Marie-Pierre Gleizes,Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642192074

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering X by Marie-Pierre Gleizes,Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz Pdf

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2009, held in Budapest, Hungary, in May 2009 as part of AAMAS 2009, the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous initial submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers have been organized into three sections on multi-agent organizations, concrete development techniques, and - one step higher - going beyond the concrete technique and proposing a development method for designing concrete types of systems. This state-of-the-art survey is rounded off by five additional lectures addressing key areas in development: agent-oriented modelling languages, implementation of MAS, testing of MAS, software processes, and formal methods for the development of MAS. They permit analysis of the current state in the generation of specifications of MAS, the way these specifications can be implemented, how they can be validated, and what steps are necessary to do so.

Author : Lin Padgham,Franco Zambonelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540709459

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VII by Lin Padgham,Franco Zambonelli Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006 as part of AAMAS 2006. The 13 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on modeling and design of agent systems, modeling open agent systems, formal reasoning about designs, as well as testing, debugging and evolvability.