Software Engineering For Multi Agent Systems Ii

Author : Carlos Lucena
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540246258
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems II written by Carlos Lucena and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in networking technology have revitalized the investigation of agent technologyasapromisingparadigmforengineeringcomplexdistributedsoftware systems. Agent technology has been applied to a wide range of application - mains, including e-commerce, human-computer interfaces, telecommunications, and software assistants. Multi-agent systems (MASs) and their underlying t- ories provide a more natural support for ensuring important properties such as autonomy, mobility, environment heterogeneity, organization, openness, and intelligence. As a consequence, agent-based systems are likely to provide new - proaches to dealing with the complexity of developing and maintaining modern software. However, developing robust large-scale agent-based systems will - quire new software engineering approaches. There are currently many methods and techniques for working with individual agents or with systems built using only a few agents. Unfortunately, agent-based software engineering is still in its infancy and existing software engineering approaches are unable to cope with large MASs. The complexity associated with a large MAS is considerable. When a huge number of agents interact over heterogeneous environments, various phenomena occur which are not as easy to capture as when only a few agents are working together. As the multiple software agents are highly collaborative and operate in networked environments, they have to be context-aware and deal with - vironment uncertainty. This makes their coordination and management more di?cult and increases the likelihood of exceptional situations, such as security holes, privacy violations, and unexpected global e?ects. Moreover, as users and softwareengineersdelegatemoreautonomytotheirMASs,andputmoretrustin their results, new concerns arise in real-life applications.

Author : Ricardo Choren
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540248439
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III written by Ricardo Choren and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a coherent and well-balanced survey of recent advances in software engineering approaches to the design and analysis of realistic large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS). The chapters included are devoted to various techniques and methods used to cope with the complexity of real-world MAS. The power of agent-based software engineering is illustrated using examples that are representative of successful applications. The 16 thoroughly reviewed and revised full papers are organized in topical sections on agent methodologies and processes, requirements engineering and software architectures, modeling languages, and dependability and coordination. Most of the papers were initially presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems, SELMAS 2004, held in Edinburgh, UK in May 2004 in association with ICSE 2004. Other papers were invited to complete coverage of all relevant aspects.

Author : Matteo Baldoni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319509837
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering Multi-Agent Systems written by Matteo Baldoni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes revised, selected, and invited papers from the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2016, held in Singapore, in May 2016, in conjunction with AAMAS. The 10 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The book also contains 2 invited papers; extended versions of AAMAS 2016 demonstration abstracts. EMAS deals with MAS software engineering processes, methodologies and techniques; Programming languages for MAS; Formal methods and declarative technologies for the specification, validation and verification of MAS; and development tools.

Author : Alessandro Garcia
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540335838
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV written by Alessandro Garcia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a coherent, well-balanced survey of recent advances in software engineering approaches to the design and analysis of realistic large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS). The chapters included are devoted to various techniques and methods used to cope with the complexity of real-world MAS. Reflecting the importance of agent properties in today's software systems, the power of agent-based software engineering is illustrated using examples that are representative of successful applications.

Author : Michael Wooldridge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470519460
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems written by Michael Wooldridge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of multi-agent systems (MAS) focuses on systems in which many intelligent agents interact with each other. These agents are considered to be autonomous entities such as software programs or robots. Their interactions can either be cooperative (for example as in an ant colony) or selfish (as in a free market economy). This book assumes only basic knowledge of algorithms and discrete maths, both of which are taught as standard in the first or second year of computer science degree programmes. A basic knowledge of artificial intelligence would useful to help understand some of the issues, but is not essential. The book’s main aims are: To introduce the student to the concept of agents and multi-agent systems, and the main applications for which they are appropriate To introduce the main issues surrounding the design of intelligent agents To introduce the main issues surrounding the design of a multi-agent society To introduce a number of typical applications for agent technology After reading the book the student should understand: The notion of an agent, how agents are distinct from other software paradigms (e.g. objects) and the characteristics of applications that lend themselves to agent-oriented software The key issues associated with constructing agents capable of intelligent autonomous action and the main approaches taken to developing such agents The key issues in designing societies of agents that can effectively cooperate in order to solve problems, including an understanding of the key types of multi-agent interactions possible in such systems The main application areas of agent-based systems

Author : Ricardo Choren
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540731318
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V written by Ricardo Choren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers selected for this volume present advances in software engineering approaches to develop dependable high-quality multi-agent systems. These papers describe experiences and techniques associated with large multi-agent systems in a wide variety of problem domains. They cover fault tolerance, exception handling and diagnosis, security and trust, verification and validation, as well as early development phases and software reuse.

Author : Ricardo Choren
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540318461
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III written by Ricardo Choren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a coherent and well-balanced survey of recent advances in software engineering approaches to the design and analysis of realistic large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS). The chapters included are devoted to various techniques and methods used to cope with the complexity of real-world MAS. The power of agent-based software engineering is illustrated using examples that are representative of successful applications. The 16 thoroughly reviewed and revised full papers are organized in topical sections on agent methodologies and processes, requirements engineering and software architectures, modeling languages, and dependability and coordination. Most of the papers were initially presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems, SELMAS 2004, held in Edinburgh, UK in May 2004 in association with ICSE 2004. Other papers were invited to complete coverage of all relevant aspects.

Author : Alessandro Garcia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540087729
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems written by Alessandro Garcia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, engineering large-scale software systems means dealing with complex systems composed of pervasive software components that move around and adapt to nondeterministic and open environments, like the Internet, in order to achieve systems design goals through the coordination of autonomously distributed services. The agent metaphor, in particular software agents and multi-agent systems (MAS), constitutes a promising approach for covering most of the software development life cycle, from conceptual modeling and requirements specification to architectural definition, design, and implementation. This book presents 17 carefully reviewed papers arranged in order to provide a coherent survey of how to exploit agent properties and MAS issues in today's software systems. The book offers the following topical sections: - software engineering foundations - requirements engineering and software architecture - coordination and mobility - reuse -dependability -empirical studies and applications

Author : Michael J. Wooldridge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540706577
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II written by Michael J. Wooldridge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, software agents and multi-agent systems have grown into what is now one of the most active areas of research and development activity in computing generally. One of the most important reasons for the current intensity of interest in the agent-based computing paradigm certainly is that the concept of an agent as an autonomous system, capable of interacting with other agents in order to satisfy its design objectives, is a natural one for software designers. This recognition has led to the growth of interest in agents as a new paradigm for software engineering. This book reflects the state of the art in the field by presenting 14 revised full papers accepted for the second workshop on this topic, AOSE 2001, together with five invited survey articles. The book offers topical sections on societies and organizations, protocols and interaction frameworks, UML and agent systems, agent-oriented requirements capture and specification, and analysis and design.

Author : Daniel Kudenko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783540808725
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems II written by Daniel Kudenko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptive agents and multi-agent systems is an emerging and exciting interdisciplinary area of research and development involving artificial intelligence, software engineering, and developmental biology, as well as cognitive and social science. This book presents 17 revised and carefully reviewed papers taken from two workshops on the topic as well as 2 invited papers by leading researchers in the area. The papers deal with various aspects of machine learning, adaptation, and evolution in the context of agent systems and autonomous agents.