Maíra A. de C. Gatti, Gustavo R. de Carvalho, Rodrigo B. de Paes (auth.), Ricardo Choren, Alessandro Garcia, Holger Giese, Ho-fung Leung, Carlos Lucena, Alexander Romanovsky (eds.)354073130X, 9783540731306, 9783540731313
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. |
Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
On Fault Tolerance in Law-Governed Multi-agent Systems….Pages 1-20
On Developing Open Mobile Fault Tolerant Agent Systems….Pages 21-40
Challenges for Exception Handling in Multi-Agent Systems….Pages 41-56
Exception Handling in Context-Aware Agent Systems: A Case Study….Pages 57-76
Exception Diagnosis Architecture for Open Multi-Agent Systems….Pages 77-98
SMASH: Modular Security for Mobile Agents….Pages 99-116
Reasoning About Willingness in Networks of Agents….Pages 117-131
Towards Compliance of Agents in Open Multi-agent Systems….Pages 132-147
Towards an Ontological Account of Agent-Oriented Goals….Pages 148-164
Improving Multi-Agent Architectural Design….Pages 165-184
Objects as Actors Assuming Roles in the Environment….Pages 185-203
A Framework for Situated Multiagent Systems….Pages 204-231
Back Matter….Pages – |
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