Despite the considerable efforts spent on researching and developing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) there is a noticeable absence of deployed systems. In the past the MAS research community ignored this problem arguing that it is not a genuine MAS problem and consequently of lesser importance than other unsolved issues like cooperation, coordination, negotiation and communication. However, as the fi...

The extension of our research on analysis of a single agent or agent communities combining advanced methods of visualization with traditional AI techniques is presented in this paper. Even though this approach can be used for arbitrary Multi-Agent System (MAS), it was primarily developed to analyze systems falling into Artificial Life domain. Traditional methods are becoming insufficient as Mul...

Because of the great interest in using multiagent systems (MAS) in a wide variety of applications in recent years, agent-oriented methodologies and related modeling techniques have become a priority for the development of large scale agent-based systems. The work we present here belongs to the disciplines of Software Engineering and Distributed Artificial Intelligence. More specifically, we are...

Multi-agent Systems Product Lines (MAS-PLs) have emerged to integrate two promising trends of software engineering: agent-oriented software engineering and software product lines. In this paper, we propose a domain engineering process to develop MAS-PLs, built on top of agent-oriented and software product line approaches.

An interesting application of multi-agent systems (MAS) is in modeling systems that can be represented by independent entities interacting together, the so-called agent-based modeling (ABM). In this paper MAS paradigm is used as a promising technique for representing complex biomedical systems. A brief survey of some ABM of biomedical systems is presented, followed by the description of a multi...

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 ...

The multi-agent systems (MAS) paradigm provides an interesting alternative for the design of ambient intelligence (AmI) systems. However, the verification of the resulting MAS and their constituent agents still requires a suitable model that meets AmI systems requirements. The HoA model presented in this paper, aims at representing the mental evolution of a BDI agent, in order to be handled in ...

Agent orientation is believed as an appropriate and powerful paradigm to develop complex systems. In order to engineer complex self-adaptive multi-agent systems, we present dynamic binding mechanism and an agentoriented methodology called ODAM that exploits the flexibility and high-level abstraction of agent orientation based on organization metaphors. The metamodel and modeling language of ODA...

Various agent-oriented methodologies and metamodels exist to describe multiagent systems (MAS) in an abstract manner. Frequently, these frameworks specialise on particular parts of the MAS and only few work has been invested to derive a common standardisation which limits the impact of agent-related systems in commercial applications. In this paper, we present a metamodel for agent systems that...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity for building open, distributed, and evolving information systems. Unfortunately, despite considerable work in the fields of software architecture and MAS during the last decade, few research efforts have aimed at defining languages for designing and formalising secure agent architectures. This paper proposes a novel Architectural De...