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Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV

Research Issues and Practical Applications

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Alessandro Garcia

    1. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

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  2. Ricardo Choren

    1. SE-8, IME, Pca General Tiburcio 80, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  3. Carlos Lucena

    1. Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  4. Paolo Giorgini

    1. University of Trento - DISI, Povo, Italy

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  5. Tom Holvoet

    1. DistriNet Labs, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

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  6. Alexander Romanovsky

    1. Computer Science School, Newcastle University, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3914)

Part of the book sub series: Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE)

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With the integration of computing and communication into the very fabric of our social, economic, and personal existence, the manner in which we think about and build software has become the subject of intense intellectual, scienti?c, and engineering reexamination. New computing paradigms have been proposed and new software architectures are being examined. The study of multi-agent s- tems (MAS) is one important movement energized by a growing awareness that application development may need to follow radically new paths. Fundamentally, MAS denotes a new software speci?cation and design paradigm. Moreover, when viewed in the context of large-scale deployment, it emerges as the embodiment of the quintessential concerns facing the software engineering community today. As computing and communication permeates the essential aspects of the societal infrastructure, software must become more nimble, slimmer, more natural, and more discrete. Software must integrate itself in an organic way into the activities it serves and the resources it exploits.

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Context-Awareness and Coordination

    1. Policy-Driven Configuration and Management of Agent Based Distributed Systems

      • Anand R. Tripathi, Devdatta Kulkarni, Tanvir Ahmed
      Pages 1-16

    2. Views: Middleware Abstractions for Context-Aware Applications in MANETs

      • Kurt Schelfthout, Tom Holvoet, Yolande Berbers
      Pages 17-34

    3. An Adaptive Distributed Layout for Multi-agent Applications

      • Koenraad Mertens, Tom Holvoet, Yolande Berbers
      Pages 35-52

    4. Self-organizing Approaches for Large-Scale Spray Multiagent Systems

      • Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
      Pages 53-70

    5. Coordination Artifacts as First-Class Abstractions for MAS Engineering: State of the Research

      • Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli
      Pages 71-90

  3. Modeling

    1. Analysis and Design of Physical and Social Contexts in Multi-agent Systems

      • Florian Klein, Holger Giese
      Pages 91-108

    2. Engineering Organization-Based Multiagent Systems

      • Scott A. DeLoach
      Pages 109-125

    3. Developing and Evaluating a Generic Metamodel for MAS Work Products

      • Ghassan Beydoun, César Gonzalez-Perez, Brian Henderson-Sellers, G. Low
      Pages 126-142

    4. Agent Roles, Qua Individuals and the Counting Problem

      • Giancarlo Guizzardi
      Pages 143-160

  4. Requirements and Software Architecture

    1. A Product-Line Approach to Promote Asset Reuse in Multi-agent Systems

      • Josh Dehlinger, Robyn R. Lutz
      Pages 161-178

    2. Characterization and Evaluation of Multi-agent System Architectural Styles

      • Paul Davidsson, Stefan Johansson, Mikael Svahnberg
      Pages 179-188

    3. Improving Flexibility and Robustness in Agent Interactions: Extending Prometheus with Hermes

      • Christopher Cheong, Michael Winikoff
      Pages 189-206

    4. Patterns for Modelling Agent Systems with Tropos

      • Haralambos Mouratidis, Michael Weiss
      Pages 207-223

  5. Dependability

    1. On the Use of Formal Specifications as Part of Running Programs

      • Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo
      Pages 224-237

    2. Adaptive Replication of Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems – Towards a Fault-Tolerant Multi-agent Platform

      • Zahia Guessoum, Nora Faci, Jean-Pierre Briot
      Pages 238-253

  6. Back Matter

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  1. Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV

Editors and Affiliations

  • Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Alessandro Garcia

  • SE-8, IME, Pca General Tiburcio 80, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Ricardo Choren

  • Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Carlos Lucena

  • University of Trento - DISI, Povo, Italy

    Paolo Giorgini

  • DistriNet Labs, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

    Tom Holvoet

  • Computer Science School, Newcastle University, UK

    Alexander Romanovsky

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