Agent-oriented software engineering II : second international workshop, AOSE 2001, Montreal, Canada, May 29, 2001 : revised papers and invited contributions / Michael J. Wooldridge, Gerhard Weiss, Paolo Ciancarini (eds.).

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Wooldridge, Michael J., 1966-

Weiss, Gerhard, 1962-

Ciancarini, Paolo, 1959-

Conference Name:

AOSE 2001 (2001 : Montréal, Québec)

Series:

Lecture notes in computer science ; 2222.

Lecture notes in computer science ; 2222

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Software engineering--Congresses.

Software engineering.

Intelligent agents (Computer software)--Congresses.

Intelligent agents (Computer software).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2002]

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

Part I Societies and Organizations

Representing Social Structures in UML / H. Van Dyke Parunak, James J. Odell 1

Diagnosis of the Dynamics within an Organization by Trace Checking of Behavioural Requirements / Catholijn Jonker, Ioan Alfred Letia, Jan Treur 17

Agent Societies: Towards Frameworks-Based Design / Virginia Dignum, Hans Weigand, Lai Xu 33

Part II Protocols and Interaction Frameworks

Bringing Coherence to Agent Conversations / Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer 50

Extended Modeling Languages for Interaction Protocol Design / Jean-Luc Koning, Marc-Philippe Huget, Jun Wei, Xu Wang 68

A Policy Language for the Management of Distributed Agents / Naranker Dulay, Nicodemos Damianou, Emil Lupu, Morris Sloman 84

Part III UML and Agent Systems

UML Class Diagrams Revisited in the Context of Agent-Based Systems / Bernhard Bauer 101

Agent Oriented Analysis Using Message/UML / Giovanni Caire, Wim Coulier, Francisco Garijo, Jorge Gomez, Juan Pavon, Francisco Leal, Paulo Chainho, Paul Kearney, Jamie Stark, Richard Evans, Philippe Massonet 119

Specifying Agent Interaction Protocols with Standard UML / Jurgen Lind 136

Agents and the UML: A Unified Notation for Agents and Multi-agent Systems? / Bernhard Bauer, Federico Bergenti, Philippe Massonet, James J. Odell 148

Part IV Agent-Oriented Requirements Capture & Specification

Modeling Early Requirements in Tropos: A Transformation Based Approach / Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Fausto Giunchiglia, John Mylopoulos 151

A Requirement Specification Language for Configuration Dynamics of Multi-agent Systems / Mehdi Dastani, Catholijn Jonker, Jan Treur 169

Determining When to Use an Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Paradigm / Scott A. O'Malley, Scott A. DeLoach 188

Agent-Oriented Modelling: Software versus the World / Eric Yu 206

Part V Analysis and Design

Expectation-Oriented Analysis and Design / Wilfried Brauer, Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Weiss, Kai F. Lorentzen 226

Abstractions and Infrastructures for the Design and Development of Mobile Agent Organizations / Franco Zambonelli 245

Towards an ADL for Designing Agent-Based Systems / Marie-Pierre Gervais, Florin Muscutariu 263

Automated Derivation of Complex Agent Architectures from Analysis Specifications / Clint H. Sparkman, Scott A. DeLoach, Athie L. Self 278

A Lifecycle for Models of Large Multi-agent Systems / Wamberto Vasconcelos, David Robertson, Jaume Agusti, Carles Sierra, Michael Wooldridge, Simon Parsons, Christopher Walton, Jordi Sabater 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3540432825

OCLC:

49276370