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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IV

4th International Workshop, AOSE 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003, Revised Papers

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Editors:
  1. Paolo Giorgini

    1. DISI, University of Trento, Povo, Italy

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  2. Jörg P. Müller

    1. Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

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  3. James Odell

    1. James Odell Associates, Ann Arbor, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2935)

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Modeling Agents and Multiagent Systems

    1. Using UML in the Context of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: State of the Art

      • Bernhard Bauer, Jörg P. Müller
      Pages 1-24

    2. Towards a Recursive Agent Oriented Methodology for Large-Scale MAS

      • Adriana Giret, Vicente Botti
      Pages 25-35

    3. Agent-Oriented Modeling by Interleaving Formal and Informal Specification

      • A. Perini, M. Pistore, M. Roveri, A. Susi
      Pages 36-52

    4. The ROADMAP Meta-model for Intelligent Adaptive Multi-agent Systems in Open Environments

      • Thomas Juan, Leon Sterling
      Pages 53-68

    5. Modeling Deployment and Mobility Issues in Multiagent Systems Using AUML

      • A. Poggi, G. Rimassa, P. Turci, J. Odell, H. Mouratidis, G. Manson
      Pages 69-84

  3. Methodologies and Tools

    1. A Knowledge-Based Methodology for Designing Reliable Multi-agent Systems

      • Mark Klein
      Pages 85-95

    2. A Framework for Constructing Multi-agent Applications and Training Intelligent Agents

      • Pericles A. Mitkas, Dionisis Kehagias, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
      Pages 96-109

    3. Activity Theory for the Analysis and Design of Multi-agent Systems

      • Rubén Fuentes, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, Juan Pavón
      Pages 110-122

    4. A Design Taxonomy of Multi-agent Interactions

      • H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Mitch Fleischer, James Odell
      Pages 123-137

    5. Automatic Derivation of Agent Interaction Model from Generic Interaction Protocols

      • José Ghislain Quenum, Aurélien Slodzian, Samir Aknine
      Pages 138-152

  4. Patterns, Architectures, and Reuse

    1. Building Blocks for Agent Design

      • Hrishikesh J. Goradia, José M. Vidal
      Pages 153-166

    2. Supporting FIPA Interoperability for Legacy Multi-agent Systems

      • Christos Georgousopoulos, Omer F. Rana, Anthony Karageorgos
      Pages 167-184

    3. Dynamic Multi-agent Architecture Using Conversational Role Delegation

      • Denis Jouvin, Salima Hassas
      Pages 185-200

  5. Roles and Organizations

    1. Temporal Aspects of Dynamic Role Assignment

      • James J. Odell, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John Sauter
      Pages 201-213

    2. From Agents to Organizations: An Organizational View of Multi-agent Systems

      • Jacques Ferber, Olivier Gutknecht, Fabien Michel
      Pages 214-230

    3. Modelling Multi-agent Systems with Soft Genes, Roles, and Agents

      • Qi Yan, XinJun Mao, Hong Zhu, ZhiChang Qi
      Pages 231-245

  6. 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- rent 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 so- ware systems. They o?er higher-level abstractions and mechanisms that address issues such as knowledge representation and reasoning, communication, coor- nation, cooperation among heterogeneous and autonomous parties, perception, commitments, goals, beliefs, and intentions, all of which need conceptual mo- ling. On the one hand, the concrete implementation of these concepts can lead to advanced functionalities, e.g., in inference-based query answering, transaction control, adaptive work?ows, brokering and integration of disparate information sources, and automated communication processes. On the other hand, their rich representational capabilities allow more faithful and ?exible treatments of c- plex organizational processes, leading to more e?ective requirements analysis and architectural/detailed design.

Editors and Affiliations

  • DISI, University of Trento, Povo, Italy

    Paolo Giorgini

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

    Jörg P. Müller

  • James Odell Associates, Ann Arbor, USA

    James Odell

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