Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems

The Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Handbook

Federico Bergenti, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Franco Zambonelli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

505 Seiten

2004
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-8057-9 (ISBN)

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With acceptance of agent-based computing, research related to the identification and definition of suitable models, and techniques to support the development of complex Multiagent Systems (MAS) has emerged. This book is separated into six parts, providing the reader with introductory material, concepts and techniques.

As information technologies become increasingly distributed and accessible to larger number of people and as commercial and government organizations are challenged to scale their applications and services to larger market shares, while reducing costs, there is demand for software methodologies and appli- tions to provide the following features: Richer application end-to-end functionality; Reduction of human involvement in the design and deployment of the software; Flexibility of software behaviour; and Reuse and composition of existing software applications and systems in novel or adaptive ways. When designing new distributed software systems, the above broad requi- ments and their translation into implementations are typically addressed by partial complementarities and overlapping technologies and this situation gives rise to significant software engineering challenges. Some of the challenges that may arise are: determining the components that the distributed applications should contain, organizing the application components, and determining the assumptions that one needs to make in order to implement distributed scalable and flexible applications, etc.

Concepts and Abstractions of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- Agent-Based Abstractions for Software Development.- On the Use of Agents as Components of Software Systems.- A Survey on Agent-Oriented Oriented Software Engineering Research.- Methodologies for Agent-Based Systems Development.- The Gaia Methodology.- The Tropos Methodology.- The MaSE Methodology.- A Comparative Evaluation of Agent-Oriented Methodologies.- Special-Purpose Methodologies.- The ADELFE Methodology.- The Message Methodology.- The SADDE Methodology.- The Prometheus Methodology.- Tools and Infrastructures for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- The AUML Approach.- FIPA-Compliant Agent Infrastructures.- Coordination Infrastructures in the Engineering of Multiagent Systems.- Non Traditional Approaches to Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- Engineering Amorphous Computing Systems.- Making Self-Organising Adaptive Multiagent Systems Work.- Engineering Swarming Systems.- Online Engineering and Open Computational Systems.- Emerging Trends and Perspectives.- Agents for Ubiquitous Computing.- Agents and the Grid.- Roadmap of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.

Reihe/Serie	Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations ; 11
Zusatzinfo	XXX, 505 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Compilerbau
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
ISBN-10	1-4020-8057-3 / 1402080573
ISBN-13	978-1-4020-8057-9 / 9781402080579
Zustand	Neuware