Agent-Oriented Software Engineering V

1. Front Matter

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2. Modeling

   1. Organizational and Social Concepts in Agent Oriented Software Engineering

      • Xinjun Mao, Eric Yu

      Pages 1-15

   2. Representing Agent Interaction Protocols with Agent UML

      • Marc-Philippe Huget, James Odell

      Pages 16-30

   3. AML: Agent Modeling Language Toward Industry-Grade Agent-Based Modeling

      • Radovan Červenka, Ivan Trenčanský, Monique Calisti, Dominic Greenwood

      Pages 31-46

   4. Formal Semantics for AUML Agent Interaction Protocol Diagrams

      • Lawrence Cabac, Daniel Moldt

      Pages 47-61

   5. A Study of Some Multi-agent Meta-models

      • Carole Bernon, Massimo Cossentino, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Paola Turci, Franco Zambonelli

      Pages 62-77

   6. A Metamodel for Agents, Roles, and Groups

      • James Odell, Marian Nodine, Renato Levy

      Pages 78-92

3. Design

   1. Bridging the Gap Between Agent-Oriented Design and Implementation Using MDA

      • Mercedes Amor, Lidia Fuentes, Antonio Vallecillo

      Pages 93-108

   2. A Design Process for Adaptive Behavior of Situated Agents

      • Elke Steegmans, Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet, Yolande Berbers

      Pages 109-125

   3. Evaluation of Agent–Oriented Software Methodologies – Examination of the Gap Between Modeling and Platform

      • Jan Sudeikat, Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Winfried Lamersdorf

      Pages 126-141

   4. A Formal Approach to Design and Reuse Agent and Multiagent Models

      • Vincent Hilaire, Olivier Simonin, Abder Koukam, Jacques Ferber

      Pages 142-157

   5. An Agent Construction Model for Ubiquitous Computing Devices

      • Ronald Ashri, Michael Luck

      Pages 158-173

4. Reuse and Platforms

   1. A Framework for Patterns in Gaia: A Case-Study with Organisations

      • Jorge Gonzalez-Palacios, Michael Luck

      Pages 174-188

   2. Enacting and Deacting Roles in Agent Programming

      • Mehdi Dastani, M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Joris Hulstijn, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer

      Pages 189-204

   3. A Platform for Agent Behavior Design and Multi Agent Orchestration

      • G. B. Laleci, Y. Kabak, A. Dogac, I. Cingil, S. Kirbas, A. Yildiz et al.

      Pages 205-220

   4. A Formal Reuse-Based Approach for Interactively Designing Organizations

      • Catholijn Jonker, Jan Treur, Pınar Yolum

      Pages 221-237

5. Back Matter

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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.

• UML
• Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• agent UML
• agent interaction protocols
• agent technology
• agent-oriented software engineering
• formal methods
• modeling
• multiagent metamodels
• object-oriented programming
• programming
• semantics
• software architecture
• software patterns
• ubiquitous computing

• James Odell Associates, Ann Arbor, USA

  James Odell

• DISI, University of Trento, Povo, Trento, Italy

  Paolo Giorgini

• Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

  Jörg P. Müller

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