Issues in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Putting coordination in a wider perspective The role of coordination in network-aware applications An exercise in multiagent coordination Designing WWW-oriented multiagent applications Active documents are agents Coordination architectures for document-agents Issues in agent-oriented software engineering

Method integration: An approach to develop agent oriented methodologies

Agent oriented software engineering (AOSE) is an emerging field in computer science  and  proposes some systematic ideas for multi agent systems analysis, implementation and maintenance. Despite the various methodologies introduced in the agent-oriented software engineering, the main challenges are defects in different aspects of methodologies. According to the defects resulted from weaknesses ...

Process models for agent-based development

A great deal of researches in the area of agent-oriented software engineering focuses on proposing methodologies for agent systems, i.e., on identifying the guidelines to drive the various phases of agent-based software development and the abstractions to be exploited in these phases. However, very little attention has been paid so far to the engineering process subjacent the development activi...

Modelling and Meta-modelling Issues in Agent Oriented Software Engineering: The AgentLink AOSE TFG Approach

AgentLink III is a coordination action for agent-based computing funded by the European Community; it aims at providing support for the network of European researchers and developers with a common interest in agent technology through the organization and support for a large number of events aimed at industry outreach, standardization issues, as well as providing support for academic disseminati...

Modeling Secure Systems Using an Agent-oriented Approach and Security Patterns

In this paper we describe an approach for modelling security issues in information systems. It is based on an agent-oriented approach, and extends it with the use of security patterns. Agent-oriented software engineering provides advantages when modeling security issues, since agents are often a natural way of conceptualizing an information system, in particular at the requirements stage, when ...

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Agent-oriented techniques represent an exciting new means of analysing, designing and building complex software systems. They have the potential to significantly improve current practice in software engineering and to extend the range of applications that can feasibly be tackled. Yet, to date, there have been few serious attempts to cast agent systems as a software engineering paradigm. This pa...