Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Concepts and Abstractions of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

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   3. Agent-Based Abstractions for Software Development

      • Munindar P. Singh

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

      • Federico Bergenti, Michael N. Huhns

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

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

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3. Methodologies for Agent-Based Systems Development

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

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   3. The Gaia Methodology

      • Luca Cernuzzi, Thomas Juan, Leon Sterling, Franco Zambonelli

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   4. The Tropos Methodology

      • Paolo Giorgini, Manuel Kolp, John Mylopoulos, Marco Pistore

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   5. The MaSE Methodology

      • Scott A. DeLoach

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   6. A Comparative Evaluation of Agent-Oriented Methodologies

      • Arnon Sturm, Onn Shehory

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4. Special-Purpose Methodologies

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction

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   3. The ADELFE Methodology

      • Gauthier Picard, Marie-Pierre Gleizes

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   4. The Message Methodology

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

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   5. The SADDE Methodology

      • Carles Sierra, Jordi Sabater, Jaume Agusti, Pere Garcia

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   6. The Prometheus Methodology

      • Michael Winikoff, Lin Padgham

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5. Tools and Infrastructures for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The AUML Approach

      • Marc-Philippe Huget, James Odell, Bernhard Bauer

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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.

• Agent-Based Systems Development
• Multiagent Systems (MAS)
• agent-based computing
• agent-oriented software engineering
• development
• modeling
• software
• software engineering

• 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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