In this paper we describe an agent-based software development environment for developing agent systems that are fundamentally based on a holistic analysis of the human and software agent organization and work practices for which the agent system is to be developed. Brahms is an agent modeling, simulation and development environment developed at NASA Ames Research Center. Brahms stems from a dec...

In this article the foundations for software agents and agent systems will be laid from the point of view of Engineering Sciences by applying the basics of software architecture. For architecture modeling an object-oriented approach will be used. The components of an agent system will be mapped on to object-oriented model types. With the help of objectoriented methods special model types for in...

The advent of multi-agent systems has brought together many disciplines and given us a new way to look at intelligent, distributed systems. However, traditional ways of thinking about and designing software do not fit the multiagent paradigm. Based on agent theory, technology research and multi-agent environment, this paper describes agent oriented programming software development method – MaSE...

With many researchers in the multi-agent system community, we share the opinion that too much of the quality and relevant research in the area of multiagent systems is under-represented in the development of complex distributed systems in practice today. In our experience, a Babylonic mismatch is a crucial factor in this fact – research on multi-agent systems profiles itself as an isolated comm...

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...

Applications in mobile multi-agent systems require a high degree of confidence that code that runs inside the system will not be malicious and that any agents which are malicious can be identified and contained. Since the inception of mobile agents, this threat has been addressed using a multitude of techniques, but many of these implementations have only addressed concerns from the position of...

We posit that a robust development environment for the construction of agent-oriented software systems must be enhanced by advanced reuse methods. However, research addressing agent reuse is meager and does not tackle the problem of organizing and storing agent-oriented artifacts according to the software engineers’ needs. Therefore, the agent retrieval process turns into an important challenge...

The recent advances in network-based software applications and the advent of ubiquitous computing are pushing us inevitably towards a world of autonomous software architectures. This trend has spurred the revitalization of agent technology as a complement to the object paradigm for a variety of modern application domains, including e-commerce, software development environments, and personal ass...

The community of agent researchers and engineers has produced a number of interesting and mature results. However, agent technology is still not widely adopted by industrial software developers or software companies—possibly because existing frameworks are infused with academic premises that rarely apply to industrial settings. In this paper, we analyse the requirements of current industry-driv...