Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: First International Workshop, AOSE 2000 Limerick, Ireland, June 10, 2000 Revised Papers

Michael Wooldridgey, Paolo Ciancarini (auth.), Paolo Ciancarini, Michael J. Wooldridge (eds.)3540415947, 9783540415947

One of the most important reasons for the current intensity of interest in agent technology 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. Just as we can understand many systems as being composed of essentially passive objects, which have a state and upon which we can perform operations, so we can understand many others as being made up of interacting semi-autonomous agents. This book brings together revised versions of papers presented at the First International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2000, held in Limerick, Ireland, in conjunction with ICSE 2000, and several invited papers. As a comprehensive and competent overview of agent-oriented software engineering, the book addresses software engineers interested in the new paradigm and technology as well as research and development professionals active in agent technology.

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Table of contents :
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: The State of the Art….Pages 1-28
Interaction-Oriented Programming….Pages 29-44
Issues in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering….Pages 45-58
Agent-Based Software Engineering….Pages 59-75
Software Architecture Attributes of Multi-agent Systems….Pages 77-90
Agent UML: A Formalism for Specifying Multiagent Software Systems….Pages 91-103
Agent-Oriented Modeling with Graph Transformation….Pages 105-119
Representing Agent Interaction Protocols in UML….Pages 121-140
On the Identification of Agents in the Design of Production Control Systems….Pages 141-162
Agent Software Engineering with Role Modelling….Pages 163-169
Designing Agent-Oriented Systems by Analysing Agent Interactions….Pages 171-183
SODA: Societies and Infrastructures in the Analysis and Design of Agent-Based Systems….Pages 185-193
A Modelling Approach for Agent Based Systems Design….Pages 195-206
An Overview of the Multiagent Systems Engineering Methodology….Pages 207-221
Security for Mobile Agents….Pages 223-234
Organisational Abstractions for the Analysis and Design of Multi-agent Systems….Pages 235-251
Reuse and Abstraction in Verification: Agents Acting in Dynamic Environments….Pages 253-267
Strategy Selection-Based Meta-level Reasoning for Multi-agent Problem-Solving….Pages 269-283
Introducing the Adaptive Agent Oriented Software Architecture and Its Application in Natural Language User Interfaces….Pages 285-306
Adding Extensible Synchronisation Capabilities to the Agent Model of a FIPA Compliant Agent Platform….Pages 307-321