Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI: 6th International Workshop, AOSE 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005. Revised and Invited Papers

✍ Scribed by Gerhard Weiß, Felix Fischer, Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos (auth.), Jörg P. Müller, Franco Zambonelli (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 261
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3950 : Programming and Software Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Agent and multiagent concepts offer higher level abstractions and mechanisms which address issues such as knowledge representation and reasoning, communication, coordination, cooperation among heterogeneous and autonomous parties, perception, commitments, goals, beliefs, and intentions all of which need conceptual modeling. The AOSE 2005 workshop sought to examine the credentials of agent-based approaches as a software engineering paradigm, and to gain an insight into what agent-oriented software engineering will look like, and what its benefits will be.

This book represents the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in July 2005 as part of AAMAS 2005. The 18 revised full papers were carefully selected from 35 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling tools, analysis and validation tools, multiagent systems design, implementation tools, and experiences and comparative evaluations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Operational Modelling of Agent Autonomy: Theoretical Aspects and a Formal Language....Pages 1-15
Hermes: Designing Goal-Oriented Agent Interactions....Pages 16-27
Modeling Social Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems: The AML Approach....Pages 28-39
Requirements Elicitation for Agent-Based Applications....Pages 40-53
Formalisation and Analysis of the Temporal Dynamics of Conditioning....Pages 54-68
Incorporating Commitment Protocols into Tropos....Pages 69-80
Zooming Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 81-93
Improving AOSE with an Enriched Modelling Framework....Pages 94-108
Dealing with Adaptive Multi-agent Organizations in the Gaia Methodology....Pages 109-123
Implementing Validated Agents Behaviours with Automata Based on Goal Decomposition Trees....Pages 124-138
Dynamically Generated User-Specified MAS....Pages 139-153
Supporting the Development of Multi-agent Interactions Via Roles....Pages 154-166
Automating Model Transformations in Agent-Oriented Modelling....Pages 167-178
Paving the Way for Implementing Multiagent Systems: Integrating Gaia with Agent-UML....Pages 179-189
Applying Multi-agent Concepts to Dynamic Plug-In Architectures....Pages 190-204
Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process for Evaluating Multi-Agent System Architecture Candidates....Pages 205-217
Estimating Costs for Agent Oriented Software....Pages 218-230
Aspects in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: Lessons Learned....Pages 231-247
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

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