The advent of multiagent 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. This paper describes the Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE) methodology and agentTool, a tool to support MaSE. MaSE guides a designer from an initial sy...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an emerging paradigm for orchestrating software components to build new composite applications that enable businesses, government agencies and other organizations to collaborate across institutional boundaries. SOA offers new languages and a variety of software development tools that enable software engineers to configure software as services and to interc...

In evolving applications, there is a need for the dynamic selection of algorithms or algorithm parameters. Such selection is hardly ever governed by exact theory, so intelligent recommender systems have been proposed. In this paper we give a formal description of a recommender system for the runtime selection of algorithms. We give a functional description of the system, both in an abstract mat...

Although very important solely supporting the retrieval of single components from a software library is not enough to make e orts towards software reuse a success The DaCapo software library system presented in this paper supports the automatic construction of software from existing com ponents according to a possibly incomplete speci cation Our method adds a global view to conventional single ...

Accurate software development effort estimation is critical to the success of software projects. Although many techniques and algorithmic models have been developed and implemented by practitioners, accurate software development effort prediction is still a challenging endeavor in the field of software engineering, especially in handling uncertain and imprecise inputs and collinear characterist...

CESI has been working on an internal research and development program to address the issues of unmanned system’s collaboration using the simulation environment as a testbed. Traditional unmanned systems utilize swarm approaches, or intelligent agents with little concern for the human-systems and the ability to apply this to hundreds, and / or thousands of unmanned systems. The PI’s previous res...

Designing Distributed Learning Environments with Intelligent Software Agents discusses a possible solution to this problem. Using agents as an abstraction tool or a metaphor for the design and construction of distance-learning systems provides novel possibilities in delivering user-focused elearning content. Furthermore, the book presents the agent-oriented approach as a way to address the comp...

There are fundamental limitations on using mental attitudes to formalise the semantics of an Agent Communication Language (ACL). In this paper, we define a general semantic framework for a class of ACLs in terms of protocols, and develop a method for designing and specifying a member of this class, and configuring it for a particular application. We then analyse the performatives and protocols ...

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. Modeling and simulation, intelligent software agents, and other technologies can support network-centric distributed tracking. These technologies came together in the Knowledge Management for Distributed Tracking (KMDT) research and development program to improve naval command, control, and decision support. The program's approach is based...