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Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems

The Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Handbook

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Federico Bergenti

    1. Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy

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  2. Marie-Pierre Gleizes

    1. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (CNRS - INP - UPS), France

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  3. Franco Zambonelli

    1. Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

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  • Is an excellent reference for anyone in developing multi-agent systems

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Concepts and Abstractions of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      Pages 3-5

    3. Agent-Based Abstractions for Software Development

      • Munindar P. Singh
      Pages 5-18

    4. On the Use of Agents as Components of Software Systems

      • Federico Bergenti, Michael N. Huhns
      Pages 19-31

    5. A Survey on Agent-Oriented Oriented Software Engineering Research

      • Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, Marie-Pierre Gervais, Gerhard Weiss
      Pages 33-62

  3. Methodologies for Agent-Based Systems Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Introduction

      Pages 65-67

    3. The Gaia Methodology

      • Luca Cernuzzi, Thomas Juan, Leon Sterling, Franco Zambonelli
      Pages 69-88

    4. The Tropos Methodology

      • Paolo Giorgini, Manuel Kolp, John Mylopoulos, Marco Pistore
      Pages 89-106

    5. The MaSE Methodology

      • Scott A. DeLoach
      Pages 107-125

    6. A Comparative Evaluation of Agent-Oriented Methodologies

      • Arnon Sturm, Onn Shehory
      Pages 127-149

  4. Special-Purpose Methodologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Introduction

      Pages 153-155

    3. The ADELFE Methodology

      • Gauthier Picard, Marie-Pierre Gleizes
      Pages 157-175

    4. The Message Methodology

      • Giovanni Caire, Wim Coulier, Francisco Garijo, Jorge Gómez-Sanz, Juan Pavón, Paul Kearney et al.
      Pages 177-194

    5. The SADDE Methodology

      • Carles Sierra, Jordi Sabater, Jaume Agusti, Pere Garcia
      Pages 195-216

    6. The Prometheus Methodology

      • Michael Winikoff, Lin Padgham
      Pages 217-234

  5. Tools and Infrastructures for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. The AUML Approach

      • Marc-Philippe Huget, James Odell, Bernhard Bauer
      Pages 237-257
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy

    Federico Bergenti

  • Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (CNRS - INP - UPS), France

    Marie-Pierre Gleizes

  • Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

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