The Tropos project is developing concepts, tools and techniques for building agent-oriented software. This paper presents a quick overview of the project and then focuses on a specific problem: the identification of architectural styles for multi-agent systems (MAS). The proposed styles have been adopted from the literature on organization theory and strategic alliances. The styles are represen...

It is by now a cliché that there is no one, universally accepted definition of intelligent agent technology, but a number loosely related techniques. And yet there are certain themes that appear common to agent-based systems, and correspondingly, certain problems that must be addressed and overcome by all agent system builders. The aim of this paper is to briefly survey the tools and techniques...

Considering the great number of agent-oriented methodologies that can be found in literature, and the fact that each one defines its own concepts and system structure, one of the main challenges in AgentOriented Software Engineering research is how to make these methodologies interoperable. By defining in a non ambiguous way concepts used in a specific domain, meta-modelling may represent a ste...

A broad area of research, known as "Agent-Based Computing", focuses on developing "agent-based" intelligent software using agent-based techniques. However, there is a scarcity research focusing providing enough evidence the superiority techniques in creating complex systems. This article has attempted to provide for why are superior traditional methods systems, such control case distinct system...