Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II: Second International Workshop, AOSE 2001 Montreal, Canada, May 29, 2001 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions

✍ Scribed by H. Van Dyke Parunak, James J. Odell (auth.), Michael J. Wooldridge, Gerhard Weiß, Paolo Ciancarini (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2222
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since the 1980s, software agents and multi-agent systems have grown into what is now one of the most active areas of research and development activity in computing generally. One of the most important reasons for the current intensity of interest in the agent-based computing paradigm certainly is that the concept of an agent as an autonomous system, capable of interacting with other agents in order to satisfy its design objectives, is a natural one for software designers. This recognition has led to the growth of interest in agents as a new paradigm for software engineering.
This book reflects the state of the art in the field by presenting 14 revised full papers accepted for the second workshop on this topic, AOSE 2001, together with five invited survey articles. The book offers topical sections on societies and organizations, protocols and interaction frameworks, UML and agent systems, agent-oriented requirements capture and specification, and analysis and design.

✦ Table of Contents

Representing Social Structures in UML....Pages 1-16
Diagnosis of the Dynamics within an Organization by Trace Checking of Behavioural Requirements....Pages 17-32
Agent Societies: Towards Frameworks-Based Design....Pages 33-49
Bringing Coherence to Agent Conversations....Pages 50-67
Extended Modeling Languages for Interaction Protocol Design....Pages 68-83
A Policy Language for the Management of Distributed Agents....Pages 84-100
UML Class Diagrams Revisited in the Context of Agent-Based Systems....Pages 101-118
Agent Oriented Analysis Using Message/UML....Pages 119-135
Specifying Agent Interaction Protocols with Standard UML....Pages 136-147
Agents and the UML: A Unified Notation for Agents and Multi-agent Systems?....Pages 148-150
Modeling Early Requirements in Tropos: A Transformation Based Approach....Pages 151-168
A Requirement Specification Language for Configuration Dynamics of Multi-agent Systems....Pages 169-187
Determining When to Use an Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Paradigm....Pages 188-205
Agent-Oriented Modelling: Software versus the World....Pages 206-225
Expectation-Oriented Analysis and Design....Pages 226-244
Abstractions and Infrastructures for the Design and Development of Mobile Agent Organizations....Pages 245-262
Towards an ADL for Designing Agent-Based Systems....Pages 263-277
Automated Derivation of Complex Agent Architectures from Analysis Specifications....Pages 278-296
A Lifecycle for Models of Large Multi-agent Systems....Pages 297-317

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Logics and Meanings of Programs; Programming Techniques; Computer Communication Networks