Skip to main content
Springer Nature Link
Log in

Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V

Research Issues and Practical Applications

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2007

Overview

Editors:
  1. Ricardo Choren
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Alessandro Garcia
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Holger Giese
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  4. Ho-fung Leung
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  5. Carlos Lucena
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  6. Alexander Romanovsky
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4408)

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

Included in the following conference series:

Conference proceedings info: SELMAS 2006.

  • 3691 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

About this book

Software is present in every aspect of our lives, pushing us inevitably towards a world of distributed computing systems. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of large-scale distributed systems. Multi-agent systems (MASs) and their underlying theories provide a more natural support for ensuring important agent properties, such as autonomy, environment heterogeneity, organization and openness. Nevertheless, a software agent is an inherently more complex abstraction, posing new challenges to software engineering. Without adequate development te- niques and methods, MASs will not be sufficiently dependable, thus making their wide adoption by the industry more difficult. The dependability of a computing system is its ability to deliver a service that can be justifiably trusted. It is a singular time for dependable distributed systems, since the traditional models we use to express the relationships between a computational process and its environment are changing from the standard deterministic types into ones that are more distributed and dynamic. This served as a guiding principle for planning the Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2006) workshop, starting with selecting the theme, “building dependable multi-agent systems.” It acknowledges our belief in the increasingly vital role dependability plays as an essential element of MAS development.

Similar content being viewed by others

Keywords

Table of contents (12 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Download chapter PDF

  2. Fault Tolerance

    1. On Fault Tolerance in Law-Governed Multi-agent Systems

      • Maíra A. de C. Gatti, Gustavo R. de Carvalho, Rodrigo B. de Paes, Carlos J. P. de Lucena, Jean-Pierre Briot
      Pages 1-20

    2. On Developing Open Mobile Fault Tolerant Agent Systems

      • Budi Arief, Alexei Iliasov, Alexander Romanovsky
      Pages 21-40

  3. Exception Handling and Diagnosis

    1. Challenges for Exception Handling in Multi-Agent Systems

      • Eric Platon, Nicolas Sabouret, Shinichi Honiden
      Pages 41-56

    2. Exception Handling in Context-Aware Agent Systems: A Case Study

      • Nelio Cacho, Karla Damasceno, Alessandro Garcia, Alexander Romanovsky, Carlos Lucena
      Pages 57-76

    3. Exception Diagnosis Architecture for Open Multi-Agent Systems

      • Nazaraf Shah, Kuo-Ming Chao, Nick Godwin
      Pages 77-98

  4. Security and Trust

    1. SMASH: Modular Security for Mobile Agents

      • Adam Pridgen, Christine Julien
      Pages 99-116

    2. Reasoning About Willingness in Networks of Agents

      • S. Dehousse, S. Faulkner, H. Mouratidis, M. Kolp, P. Giorgini
      Pages 117-131

  5. Verification and Validation

    1. Towards Compliance of Agents in Open Multi-agent Systems

      • Jorge Gonzalez-Palacios, Michael Luck
      Pages 132-147

    2. Towards an Ontological Account of Agent-Oriented Goals

      • Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Anna Perini, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 148-164

  6. Early Development Phases and Software Reuse

    1. Improving Multi-Agent Architectural Design

      • Carla Silva, Jaelson Castro, Patrícia Tedesco, João Araújo, Ana Moreira, John Mylopoulos
      Pages 165-184

    2. Objects as Actors Assuming Roles in the Environment

      • Tetsuo Tamai, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Ryoichi Ichiyama
      Pages 185-203

    3. A Framework for Situated Multiagent Systems

      • Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet
      Pages 204-231

  7. Back Matter

    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Other volumes

  1. Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top