Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VIII: 8th International Workshop, AOSE 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 14, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

✍ Scribed by Juan C. Garcia-Ojeda, Scott A. DeLoach, Robby, Walamitien H. Oyenan, Jorge Valenzuela (auth.), Michael Luck, Lin Padgham (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4951
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Software architectures that contain many dynamically interacting components, each with its own thread of control, engaging in complex coordination protocols, are difficult to correctly and efficiently engineer. Agent-oriented modelling techniques are important for the design and development of such applications. This book provides a diverse and interesting overview of the work that is currently being undertaken by a growing number of researchers in the area of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2007, held in Honolulu, Hawaii in May 2007 as part of AAMAS 2007. The 16 revised full papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The volume contains the papers presented at the workshop, together with papers resulting from discussions on tools and platforms. The papers have been organized into four sections on: methodology and processes, interacting heterogeneous agents, system development issues, and tools and case studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
O-MaSE: A Customizable Approach to Developing Multiagent Development Processes....Pages 1-15
Extending Gaia with Agent Design and Iterative Development....Pages 16-30
AgentPrIMe: Adapting MAS Designs to Build Confidence....Pages 31-43
Refining Goal Models by Evaluating System Behaviour....Pages 44-57
A Goal-Oriented Software Testing Methodology....Pages 58-72
Open Agent Systems ???....Pages 73-87
An Agent Framework for Processing FIPA-ACL Messages Based on Interaction Models....Pages 88-102
A Methodology for Developing Multiagent Systems as 3D Electronic Institutions....Pages 103-117
Reasoning About Risk in Agent’s Deliberation Process: A Jadex Implementation....Pages 118-131
Generation of Repair Plans for Change Propagation....Pages 132-146
An Expressway from Agent-Oriented Models to Prototypes....Pages 147-163
Introduction to AOSE Tools for the Conference Management System....Pages 164-167
Developing a Multiagent Conference Management System Using the O-MaSE Process Framework....Pages 168-181
Tool-Supported Development with Tropos: The Conference Management System Case Study....Pages 182-196
The Prometheus Design Tool – A Conference Management System Case Study....Pages 197-211
Developing a Conference Management System with the Multi-Agent Systems Unified Process: A Case Study....Pages 212-224
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

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