In order for agent-oriented software engineering to prove effective it must use principled notions of agents and enabling specification and reasoning, while still considering routes to practical implementation. This paper deals with the issue of individual agent specification and construction, departing from the conceptual basis provided by the smart agent framework. smart offers a descriptive ...

Development of software is a scientific and economic problem, particularly the design of complex systems whichrequire evolving methods and approaches. Agent technology is currently one of the most active and vibrant areas of IT research and development. Object-oriented Software Engineering (OOSE) has become an active area of research in recent years. In this paper, we review the framework of so...

What is agent? Just like Artificial Intelligence (AI), there are multiple definitions to it, however not a single definition could be agreed upon by all researchers and developers in the world. We could view Agent and Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) as a new programming paradigm that has evolved itself from Object Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE). AOSE has placed greater emphasis...

With the emergence of agent-oriented software engineering techniques, software engineers have a new way of conceptualizing complex distributed software requirements. In order to determine the most appropriate software engineering methodology, a set of defining criteria is required. In this paper, we describe the method taken to determine these criteria, as well as a technique developed to assis...

The growth of interest in agent-orientation as a new paradigm has introduced the need for developing concepts, tools and techniques for modeling and engineering agent-based software systems. Object technology has been supporting the development of information systems for many years but is now slowly evolving to encompass more recent ideas relating to the concept of "agent". Integrating agent co...

Agent-oriented techniques characterize an exciting new way of analyzing, designing and building complex software systems in real time world. These techniques have the prospective to significantly improve current practice in software engineering and to extend the range of applications that can feasibly be tackled. The Agent Oriented Programming & Software Engineering is being focused to design d...

In this paper we argue that the agent paradigm offers promising techniques for dealing with the challenges of building intelligent mobile services. We present Agent Oriented Software Engineering as a solution for the problems in designing a new generation of mobile services. To illustrate our position, we present a brief agent-oriented analysis of a mobile commerce scenario.

Despite the progress in agent oriented software engineering, there is still a long way before achieving maturity. Among others, there is a lack of shared experience in evaluating the cost when developing software using the agent paradigm. This paper provides some results on this issue. It collects data from real agent based projects and gives hints for the application of existing software cost ...

During the last few years, agents and agent-based systems have attracted a significant amount of attention from researchers in environmental informatics. Agent-based approaches have been adopted for developing environmental systems for data management, decision support or simulation purposes. In order to identify the degree of penetration of agent technology in environmental software systems, o...