A software agent is a program that effectively uses the network and remote processing sites to conduct differnt tasks on behalf of its originator. If required, the agent can communicate with the environments and/or other agents. This also includes replication of agents and possibly also propagation of processes. An important problem with an agent-based solution is security. Security might be di...

The technology of mobile agents obtained recently more importance not only because of its capacity of developing and building a distributed, heterogeneous, and interoperable systems, but also because of its robustness development of mobile and communication network as well. However, there are few works dealing with the methods and tools of analysis and design of the mobile agents systems. Furth...

Strategic decision makers are frequently faced with unstructured problems that cannot be solved adequately by analytical means. In such situations, a better decision-making approach is one based on stakeholders’ participation. A particular form of such an approach is known as participatory modelling, whereby participatory methods are used for knowledge elicitation while simulation modelling tec...

The technology of mobile agents obtained recently more importance not only because of its capacity of developing and building a distributed, heterogeneous, and interoperable systems, but also because of its robustness development of mobile and communication network as well. However, there are few works dealing with the methods and tools of analysis and design of the mobile agents systems. Furth...

The necessity of a methodology for developing multi-agent systems (MAS) has been widely recognized due to the difficulties in analysis, specification, design, implementation and testing the autonomous and collaborative behaviours of such systems. This paper presents CAMLE – a caste-centric agent modeling language and environment. The methodology underlying the language and environment is based ...

We live in a very complex world where we face complex phenomena such as social norms and new technologies. To deal with such phenomena, social scientists often use reductionism approach where they reduce them to some lower-lever variables and model the relationships among them through a scheme of equations. This approach that is called equation based modeling (EBM) has some basic weaknesses in ...