Multi-agent Systems Product Lines (MAS-PLs) have emerged to integrate two promising trends of software engineering: agent-oriented software engineering and software product lines. In this paper, we propose a domain engineering process to develop MAS-PLs, built on top of agent-oriented and software product line approaches.

Testing is one of the important and indispensable activities of software development life cycle. Software testing makes sure that the developed software satisfies all the customer requirements and executes without error. More researches in the field of software testing are carried out in academic as well as in industry so as to improve the testing process. As there is a major shift in the softw...

The software agent paradigm has evolved from a specialised stream of distributed artificial intelligence because of the emerging and commercially important need for software systems to inter-operate via heterogeneous networks. However, the software agent paradigm has taken a considerable amount of time to come to fruition in the communications domain, especially in the telecommunications world....

As computer software continues to grow increasingly complex with each passing year, researchers continue to try and develop means to simplify software development. In this paper, we propose a BDI agent software development process as the next evolution in software development. The goal of this research is to develop a process, which can be used to enable the creation of agent-based systems. Thi...

One of the grand challenges to achieving wide spread use and rapid development of multi-agent systems is to adapt principles of software engineering. Agent-oriented software provides a new software engineering paradigm and the opportunities for development of new domain-specific software models. With the continuing improvement of agent technology, and the rapid growth of software system complex...

Agent technology is meant for developing complex distributed applications. Software agents are the key building blocks of a Multi-Agent System (MAS). Software agents are unique in its nature as it possesses certain distinctive properties such as Pro-activity, Reactivity, Social-ability, Mobility etc., Agent’s behavior might differ for same input at different cases and thus testing an agent and ...

Preventing unauthorised access to corporate information systems is essential for many organisations. To address this problem we built a security enhancement software system using software agents, in which a core software agent resides on a server and user end software agents reside at each use) workstation. By downloading a pattern of typical user behaviour and rules governing invalid behaviotu...

A software agent is viewed as a piece of software that acts on its own and interacts with other similar entities in an environment to achieve its design goals. This agent view provides a level of abstraction well suited for modeling and building complex software systems [9]. Hence a new paradigm in software engineering, namely Agent Oriented Programming (AOP) [16] and Agent Oriented Software En...

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...

In recent years, the agent technology has evolved rapidly along with a growing number of agent architectures, theories and languages. Computer science and engineering communities considered agent technology as one of the most important and active area of research and development. Agent oriented software engineering has numerous applications in different areas such as information management, spa...