With the increasing popularity of Web shopping, the per-sonalization of the front-end of on-line stores has become a critical issue: these systems are accessed by customers with diierent backgrounds, expertise and preferences; therefore, their usability can only be improved by personalizing their interfaces to the needs of each speciic user. In this paper, we describe the architecture of SETA, ...

Agents must form and update mental models about each other in a wide range of domains: team coordination, plan recognition, social simulation, user modeling, games of incomplete information, etc. Existing research typically treats the problem of forming beliefs about other agents as an isolated subproblem, where the modeling agent starts from an initial set of possible models for another agent ...

Mobile agent-based applications are special type of software systems which take the advantages of mobile agents in order to provide a new beneficial paradigm to solve multiple complex problems in several fields and areas such as network management, e-commerce, e-learning, etc. Likewise, we notice lack of real applications based on this paradigm and lack of serious evaluations of their modeling ...

Agent-UML (AUML) extended UML in order to facilitate the modeling process for agent based systems. It offers several graphical notations, including protocol diagrams which represent agent interaction protocols. In this paper, we describe an AUML-based framework to specify generic protocols. We call generic protocols, agent interaction protocols where only a general behavior of the interacting e...

Many real-world applications are mapped into combinatorial problems. An example of such problem is timetable scheduling. In this case, the two basic characteristics can be defined by its distributed and dynamic environment. One efficient solution to solve this problem could be provided by an agent-based approach. A timetable scheduling problem can be modelled as a multi-agent system that provid...

Modelling urban land use change can foster understanding of underlying processes and is increasingly realized using agentbased models (ABM) as they allow for explicitly coding land management decisions. However, urban land use change is the result of interactions of a variety of individuals as well as organisations. Thus, simulation models on urban land use need to include a diversity of agent ...

As agent technology acceptance grows, there is a need for software engineering approaches to deal with the design of large, complex multiagent applications. Currently, existing approaches work well for small systems but are not well suited for large, complex applications. Thus, we propose extending multiagent approaches with service-oriented principles to simplify the design of such systems. Ou...

A great number of methodologies to develop MAS systems have been proposed in the last few years. But, a perfect methodology that satisfies all the developer necessities cannot be found. This is the reason why different methodologies are studied to create a new one. In this article, a methodology that includes all steps from the capture of requirements to the implementation and deployment of an ...

In recent years, agent-oriented analysis and design has received a great deal of attention, and as a result, several methodologies have been proposed. This article presents a simple survey for current methodologies, and three of them (GAIA, SODA, and EXPAND) are reviewed and evaluated. The reason that we choose these three approaches to discuss is in that they are all having the background base...