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...

The “Foundations and Practice of Programming Multi-Agent Systems” Dagstuhl Seminar aimed at bringing together researchers interested in programming languages for multi-agent systems, agent-oriented software engineering, and various related aspects such as verification, and formal semantics. We were delighted with the result of this seminar, which gave participants a clear view of the most advan...

While there are a considerable number of software engineering methodologies for developing multi-agent systems, not much work has been reported on the evaluation and comparison of these methodologies. This paper presents a comparative analysis of five well-known MAS-development methodologies. The comparison is based on a feature analysis framework published previously [1]. This framework allows...

This paper explain how to construct a tool which aides in the modeling of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodology processes. FIPA Methodology Technical Committee encourages the definition of software engineering process models for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) methodologies. In order to create these models, FIPA recommends the use of Software Process Engineering metamodel (SPEM) defi...

Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) is a rapidly developing area of research. Current research and development primarily focuses on the analysis, design and implementation of agent based software whereas testing is less prioritised. Software testing is an important and indispensable part of software development process. Test case generation is the primary step of any testing process whic...

Agent-oriented software engineering has, by many researchers, been dubbed the new paradigm in software development, and from its original concepts in the early ‘80s, agents and agent systems are now active research areas in computer science. This evolution offers a promising approach to the development of patient scheduling systems. Coordinating and processing a vast amount of complex variables...

In this talk I review where we stand regarding the engineering of multi-agent systems. There is both good news and bad news. The good news is that over the past decade we’ve made considerable progress on techniques for engineering multi-agent systems: we have good, usable methodologies, and mature tools. Furthermore, we’ve seen a wide range of demonstrated applications, and have even begun to q...

We argue that the coming of the Internet era has raised issues that traditional object-oriented software engineering methodologies seem not ready to address. In this paper, we first discuss the intrinsic limitations of the object abstraction in the engineering of complex software systems, and compare it to the agent abstraction. Then, we show how an agent-oriented methodology should take into a...

Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) paradigm represents an interesting means of analyzing, designing and building complex software systems quite suitable to new software development requirements. Many scientific researches have been focused on this paradigm, yet its current state still reports relative lack of industrial acceptance compared to others. As a survey of AOSE paradigm, this p...