Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V

1. Front Matter

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2. Fault Tolerance

   1. On Fault Tolerance in Law-Governed Multi-agent Systems

      • Maíra A. de C. Gatti, Gustavo R. de Carvalho, Rodrigo B. de Paes, Carlos J. P. de Lucena, Jean-Pierre Briot

      Pages 1-20

   2. On Developing Open Mobile Fault Tolerant Agent Systems

      • Budi Arief, Alexei Iliasov, Alexander Romanovsky

      Pages 21-40

3. Exception Handling and Diagnosis

   1. Challenges for Exception Handling in Multi-Agent Systems

      • Eric Platon, Nicolas Sabouret, Shinichi Honiden

      Pages 41-56

   2. Exception Handling in Context-Aware Agent Systems: A Case Study

      • Nelio Cacho, Karla Damasceno, Alessandro Garcia, Alexander Romanovsky, Carlos Lucena

      Pages 57-76

   3. Exception Diagnosis Architecture for Open Multi-Agent Systems

      • Nazaraf Shah, Kuo-Ming Chao, Nick Godwin

      Pages 77-98

4. Security and Trust

   1. SMASH: Modular Security for Mobile Agents

      • Adam Pridgen, Christine Julien

      Pages 99-116

   2. Reasoning About Willingness in Networks of Agents

      • S. Dehousse, S. Faulkner, H. Mouratidis, M. Kolp, P. Giorgini

      Pages 117-131

5. Verification and Validation

   1. Towards Compliance of Agents in Open Multi-agent Systems

      • Jorge Gonzalez-Palacios, Michael Luck

      Pages 132-147

   2. Towards an Ontological Account of Agent-Oriented Goals

      • Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Anna Perini, John Mylopoulos

      Pages 148-164

6. Early Development Phases and Software Reuse

   1. Improving Multi-Agent Architectural Design

      • Carla Silva, Jaelson Castro, Patrícia Tedesco, João Araújo, Ana Moreira, John Mylopoulos

      Pages 165-184

   2. Objects as Actors Assuming Roles in the Environment

      • Tetsuo Tamai, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Ryoichi Ichiyama

      Pages 185-203

   3. A Framework for Situated Multiagent Systems

      • Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet

      Pages 204-231

7. Back Matter

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Software is present in every aspect of our lives, pushing us inevitably towards a world of distributed computing systems. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of large-scale distributed systems. Multi-agent systems (MASs) and their underlying theories provide a more natural support for ensuring important agent properties, such as autonomy, environment heterogeneity, organization and openness. Nevertheless, a software agent is an inherently more complex abstraction, posing new challenges to software engineering. Without adequate development te- niques and methods, MASs will not be sufficiently dependable, thus making their wide adoption by the industry more difficult. The dependability of a computing system is its ability to deliver a service that can be justifiably trusted. It is a singular time for dependable distributed systems, since the traditional models we use to express the relationships between a computational process and its environment are changing from the standard deterministic types into ones that are more distributed and dynamic. This served as a guiding principle for planning the Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2006) workshop, starting with selecting the theme, “building dependable multi-agent systems.” It acknowledges our belief in the increasingly vital role dependability plays as an essential element of MAS development.

• Software Engineering
• agent architectures
• agent-based software engineering
• agent-based workflow services
• agent-oriented modeling
• agent-oriented software engineering
• ambient intelligence
• architectural design
• availability
• context­awareness
• design
• multi-agent system
• proving
• validation
• verification

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