A software agent is viewed as a piece of software that acts on its own and interacts with other similar entities in an environment to achieve its design goals. This agent view provides a level of abstraction well suited for modeling and building complex software systems [9]. Hence a new paradigm in software engineering, namely Agent Oriented Programming (AOP) [16] and Agent Oriented Software En...

Software engineering describes a system at different levels of abstraction. Agent-oriented software engineering introduces a new level, called the agent level, to allow the software architect modelling a system in terms of interacting agents. This level of abstraction is not yet supported by an accepted diagrammatic notation even if a number of proposals are available. This paper shows how UML ...

Mobile agents are a class of software agents that have the ability to move from host to host and are particularly relevant for mobile and distributed applications. The development of several mobile agent implementation environments has necessitated conceptual modelling techniques for mobile agent applications. In this paper, we present mGaia, our extension of the Gaia Agent Oriented Software En...

This paper proposes a coordination model, for intelligent agents, based on filters and latent Semantic Indexing Algorithm to extract information from Web documents . This paper focuses on the development of an agent-oriented software engineering UML methodology. UML divide architecture of agent into roles to fetch, analyze and evaluate a document. If the filter recommends a document it, means t...

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This chapter presents a selection of current research works on agent technology which are focused on the development of Multi-Agent Systems. The purpose of this chapter is to guide developers through existing theories, methods, and software that can be applied in each stage of a development. However, this guide is not exhaustive due the amount of agent-related research works. Thus authors have ...

This paper is an analysis of the characteristics of software agents and multi-agent systems aiming at deriving the basic concepts and capabilities that a “good” agent programming language should have. The paper deals with this topic from two different point of views: it analyzes agent’s properties in order to understand which language constructs and abstractions could be worth, and then refines...

One of the grand challenges to achieving wide spread use and rapid development of multi-agent systems is to adapt principles of software engineering. Agent-oriented software provides a new software engineering paradigm and the opportunities for development of new domain-specific software models. With the continuing improvement of agent technology, and the rapid growth of software system complex...

Agent Orientation is emerging as a dominant research area and also prevails as a new paradigm for constructing complex distributed system. Agents provide designers/developers with a way of structuring applications around autonomous, communicative elements. Thus, Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) is concerned with the use of agents in the development of complex distributed systems, espe...