Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems : research issues and practical applications /

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Imprint:	Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Lecture notes in computer science ; 2603 Lecture notes in computer science ; 2603.
Subject:	Software engineering. Intelligent agents (Computer software) Intelligent agents (Computer software) Software engineering. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11065378

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Other authors / contributors:	Garcia, Alessandro, 1976-
ISBN:	9783540358282 3540358285 3540087729 9783540087724
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English. Screen of 2005-03-01; title from caption.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems : research issues and practical applications
Standard no.:	10.1007/3-540-35828-5

Table of Contents:

Software Engineering Foundations
Taming Agents and Objects in Software Engineering
The Role of Roles in Designing Effective Agent Organizations
Requirements Engineering and Software Architecture
Requirements Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems
Requirements Traceability in Agent Oriented Development
The Reflective Blackboard Pattern: Architecting Large Multi-agent Systems
Coordination and Mobility
A Declarative Approach to Agent-Centered Context-Aware Computing in Ad Hoc Wireless Environments
Engineering Mobility in Large Multi Agent Systems: A Case Study in Urban Traffic Management
Sustainable Information Ecosystems
Reuse
Achieving the Promise of Reuse with Agent Components
Application-Specific Reuse of Agent Roles
Assisting the Development of Aspect-Based Multi-agent Systems Using the Smartweaver Approach
Dependability
Dynamic and Adaptive Replication for Large-Scale Reliable Multi-agent Systems
Achieving Software Robustness via Large-Scale Multiagent Systems
Empirical Studies and Applications
What Can Cellular Automata Tell Us about the Behavior of Large Multi-agent Systems?
The RETSINA MAS, a Case Study
Secure Multi-agent Coordination in a Network Monitoring System
Towards Monitored Data Consistency and Business Processing Based on Declarative Software Agents1.

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