Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV: Research Issues and Practical Applications

✍ Scribed by Anand R. Tripathi, Devdatta Kulkarni, Tanvir Ahmed (auth.), Alessandro Garcia, Ricardo Choren, Carlos Lucena, Paolo Giorgini, Tom Holvoet, Alexander Romanovsky (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3914
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With the integration of computing and communication into the very fabric of our social, economic, and personal existence, the manner in which we think about and build software has become the subject of intense intellectual, scienti?c, and engineering reexamination. New computing paradigms have been proposed and new software architectures are being examined. The study of multi-agent s- tems (MAS) is one important movement energized by a growing awareness that application development may need to follow radically new paths. Fundamentally, MAS denotes a new software speci?cation and design paradigm. Moreover, when viewed in the context of large-scale deployment, it emerges as the embodiment of the quintessential concerns facing the software engineering community today. As computing and communication permeates the essential aspects of the societal infrastructure, software must become more nimble, slimmer, more natural, and more discrete. Software must integrate itself in an organic way into the activities it serves and the resources it exploits.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Policy-Driven Configuration and Management of Agent Based Distributed Systems....Pages 1-16
Views: Middleware Abstractions for Context-Aware Applications in MANETs....Pages 17-34
An Adaptive Distributed Layout for Multi-agent Applications....Pages 35-52
Self-organizing Approaches for Large-Scale Spray Multiagent Systems....Pages 53-70
Coordination Artifacts as First-Class Abstractions for MAS Engineering: State of the Research....Pages 71-90
Analysis and Design of Physical and Social Contexts in Multi-agent Systems....Pages 91-108
Engineering Organization-Based Multiagent Systems....Pages 109-125
Developing and Evaluating a Generic Metamodel for MAS Work Products....Pages 126-142
Agent Roles, Qua Individuals and the Counting Problem ....Pages 143-160
A Product-Line Approach to Promote Asset Reuse in Multi-agent Systems....Pages 161-178
Characterization and Evaluation of Multi-agent System Architectural Styles....Pages 179-188
Improving Flexibility and Robustness in Agent Interactions: Extending Prometheus with Hermes....Pages 189-206
Patterns for Modelling Agent Systems with Tropos....Pages 207-223
On the Use of Formal Specifications as Part of Running Programs....Pages 224-237
Adaptive Replication of Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems – Towards a Fault-Tolerant Multi-agent Platform....Pages 238-253
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Programming Techniques; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction