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Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems

Research Issues and Practical Applications

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Alessandro Garcia

    1. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  2. Carlos Lucena

    1. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  3. Franco Zambonelli

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

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  4. Andrea Omicini

    1. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica (DEIS), Università di Bologna, Cesena (FC), Italy

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  5. Jaelson Castro

    1. Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife PE, Brazil

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2603)

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Software Engineering Foundations

    1. Taming Agents and Objects in Software Engineering

      • Viviane Silva, Alessandro Garcia, Anarosa Brandão, Christina Chavez, Carlos Lucena, Paulo Alencar
      Pages 1-26

    2. The Role of Roles in Designing Effective Agent Organizations

      • James J. Odell, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Mitchell Fleischer
      Pages 27-38

  3. Requirements Engineering and Software Architecture

    1. Requirements Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems

      • Luiz Marcio Cysneiros, Eric Yu
      Pages 39-56

    2. Requirements Traceability in Agent Oriented Development

      • Jaelson Castro, Rosa Pinto, Andréa Castor, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 57-72

    3. The Reflective Blackboard Pattern: Architecting Large Multi-agent Systems

      • Otavio Silva, Alessandro Garcia, Carlos Lucena
      Pages 73-93

  4. Coordination and Mobility

    1. A Declarative Approach to Agent-Centered Context-Aware Computing in Ad Hoc Wireless Environments

      • Gruia-Catalin Roman, Christine Julien, Amy L. Murphy
      Pages 94-109

    2. Engineering Mobility in Large Multi Agent Systems: A Case Study in Urban Traffic Management

      • Marco Mamei, Michael Mahan
      Pages 110-122

    3. Sustainable Information Ecosystems

      • Rune Gustavsson, Martin Fredriksson
      Pages 123-138

  5. Reuse

    1. Achieving the Promise of Reuse with Agent Components

      • Martin L. Griss, Robert R. Kessler
      Pages 139-147

    2. Application-Specific Reuse of Agent Roles

      • Tom Holvoet, Elke Steegmans
      Pages 148-164

    3. Assisting the Development of Aspect-Based Multi-agent Systems Using the Smartweaver Approach

      • J. Andrés Díaz Pace, Federico U. Trilnik, Marcelo R. Campo
      Pages 165-181

  6. Dependability

    1. Dynamic and Adaptive Replication for Large-Scale Reliable Multi-agent Systems

      • Zahia Guessoum, Jean-Pierre Briot, Olivier Marin, Athmane Hamel, Pierre Sens
      Pages 182-198

    2. Achieving Software Robustness via Large-Scale Multiagent Systems

      • Michael N. Huhns, Vance T. Holderfield, Rosa Laura Zavala Gutierrez
      Pages 199-215

  7. Empirical Studies and Applications

    1. What Can Cellular Automata Tell Us about the Behavior of Large Multi-agent Systems?

      • Franco Zambonelli, Marco Mamei, Andrea Roli
      Pages 216-231

    2. The RETSINA MAS, a Case Study

      • Katia Sycara, Joseph A. Giampapa, Brent Langley, Massimo Paolucci
      Pages 232-250

    3. Secure Multi-agent Coordination in a Network Monitoring System

      • Anand R. Tripathi, Muralidhar Koka, Sandeep Karanth, Abhijit Pathak, Tanvir Ahmed
      Pages 251-266

    4. Towards Monitored Data Consistency and Business Processing Based on Declarative Software Agents1

      • P.S.C. Alencar, D.D. Cowan, D. Mulholland, T. Oliveira
      Pages 267-284

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 285-285
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About this book

Nowadays, engineering large-scale software systems means dealing with complex systems composed of pervasive software components that move around and adapt to nondeterministic and open environments, like the Internet, in order to achieve systems design goals through the coordination of autonomously distributed services. The agent metaphor, in particular software agents and multi-agent systems (MAS), constitutes a promising approach for covering most of the software development life cycle, from conceptual modeling and requirements specification to architectural definition, design, and implementation.

This book presents 17 carefully reviewed papers arranged in order to provide a coherent survey of how to exploit agent properties and MAS issues in today's software systems. The book offers the following topical sections:

- software engineering foundations

- requirements engineering and software architecture

- coordination and mobility

- reuse

-dependability

-empirical studies and applications

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Alessandro Garcia, Carlos Lucena

  • Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

  • Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica (DEIS), Università di Bologna, Cesena (FC), Italy

    Andrea Omicini

  • Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife PE, Brazil

    Jaelson Castro

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