It is widely accepted in the agent research community that a key issue in the transition of agents from research labs to industrial practice is the need for a mature software engineering methodology for specifying and designing agent systems. In this chapter we describe the Prometheus1 methodology which aims to address this need. Prometheus is intended to be a practical methodology. As such, it...

A number of bush and forest fire simulators have been developed in the last two decades based on the deterministic spread equations of Gwynfor Richards (Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng. 1990) and the marker method for computing discrete approximations to the Richards equations. Unfortunately, all such implementations are plagued by topological complications. For example, sampling issues on the evolving ...

Als Schöpferfigur wird Prometheus in Überlegungen über Literatur angeführt; als Bild für den autonomen Menschen, der sich seine Welt durch Arbeit selbst schafft, illustriert die Figur Debatten des Menschen. Seit Ihab Hassans Text as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture (1977) ist eng mit dem Konzept Posthumanismus verbunden (Franssen 2014). Wichtig sind hier besonders zur „disruptiven Innov...

Agents are a powerful technology with many significant applications. A key issue in getting the technology into mainstream software development is the development of appropriate methodologies for engineering agent-oriented software. This paper presents the Prometheus methodology, which has been developed over several years in collaboration with Agent Oriented Software. The methodology has been ...

We demonstrate that the chaotic orbits of Prometheus and Pandora are due to interactions associated with the 121:118 mean motion resonance. Differential precession splits this resonance into a quartet of components equally spaced in frequency. Libration widths of the individual components exceed the splitting resulting in resonance overlap which causes the chaos. A single degree of freedom mode...