Agent Engineering
Agent Engineering

Author: Jiming Liu

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 9810245580

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Agent engineering concerns the development of autonomous computational or physical entities capable of perceiving, reasoning, adapting, learning, cooperating and delegating in a dynamic environment. It is one of the most promising areas of research and development in information technology, computer science and engineering.This book addresses some of the key issues in agent engineering: What is meant by ?autonomous agents?? How can we build agents with autonomy? What are the desirable capabilities of agents with respect to surviving (they will not die) and living (they will furthermore enjoy their being or existence)? How can agents cooperate among themselves? In order to achieve the optimal performance at the global level, how much optimization at the local, individual level and how much at the global level would be necessary?

Multi-agent Systems for Traffic and Transportation Engineering
Multi-agent Systems for Traffic and Transportation Engineering

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Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1605662275

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"This book aims at giving a complete panorama of the active and promising crossing area between traffic engineering and multi-agent system addressing both current status and challenging new ideas"--Provided by publisher.

Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems
Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems

Author: Federico Bergenti

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-04-28

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 1402080581

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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.

Agent-Directed Simulation and Systems Engineering
Agent-Directed Simulation and Systems Engineering

Author: Levent Yilmaz

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-11-04

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 3527627790

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The only book to present the synergy between modeling and simulation, systems engineering, and agent technologies expands the notion of agent-based simulation to also deal with agent simulation and agent-supported simulation. Accessible to both practitioners and managers, it systematically addresses designing and building agent systems from a systems engineering perspective.

Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems

Author: Matteo Baldoni

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 3319509837

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This book constitutes revised, selected, and invited papers from the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2016, held in Singapore, in May 2016, in conjunction with AAMAS. The 10 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The book also contains 2 invited papers; extended versions of AAMAS 2016 demonstration abstracts. EMAS deals with MAS software engineering processes, methodologies and techniques; Programming languages for MAS; Formal methods and declarative technologies for the specification, validation and verification of MAS; and development tools.

Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV
Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV

Author: Andrea Omicini

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-06-22

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 3540222316

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2004, held in London, UK in October 2004. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement for inclusion in the book; also included are 2 invited papers by leading researchers in order to round of the coverage of the relevant topics. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: - multidisciplinary for agent societies - coordination, organization, and security of agent societies - abstractions, methodologies, and tools for engineering agent societies - applications of agent societies

Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems

Author: Danny Weyns

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-07-13

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 3030256936

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This book constitutes the revised and selected papers from the 6th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems held in Stockholm, Sweden, in July 2018, in conjunction with AAMAS 2018. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The book also contains a state-of-the-art paper that reflects on the role and potential of MAS engineering in a number of key facets. The papers are clustered around the following themes: programming agents and MAS, agent-oriented software engineering, formal analysis techniques, rational agents, modeling and simulation, frameworks and application domains.

Engineering Societies in the Agents World V
Engineering Societies in the Agents World V

Author: Marie-Pierre Gleizes

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-07-08

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 3540273301

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2004, held in Toulouse, France, in October 2004. The 23 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were carefully selected from 48 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on roles, organizations, and institutions for agents; social issues in multi-agent systems; cooperation and collective behavior in agent societies; methodologies and platforms for agent-oriented engineering; agent-oriented simulation; and models for multi-agent systems.

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Author: Onn Shehory

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-06-02

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 3642544320

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With this book, Onn Shehory and Arnon Sturm, together with further contributors, introduce the reader to various facets of agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE). They provide a selected collection of state-of-the-art findings, which combines research from information systems, artificial intelligence, distributed systems and software engineering and covers essential development aspects of agent-based systems. The book chapters are organized into five parts. The first part introduces the AOSE domain in general, including introduction to agents and the peculiarities of software engineering for developing MAS. The second part describes general aspects of AOSE, like architectural models, design patterns and communication. Next, part three discusses AOSE methodologies and associated research directions and elaborates on Prometheus, O-MaSE and INGENIAS. Part four then addresses agent-oriented programming languages. Finally, the fifth part presents studies related to the implementation of agents and multi-agent systems. The book not only provides a comprehensive review of design approaches for specifying agent-based systems, but also covers implementation aspects such as communication, standards and tools and environments for developing agent-based systems. It is thus of interest to researchers, practitioners and students who are interested in exploring the agent paradigm for developing software systems.

Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Engineering Societies in the Agents World

Author: Andrea Omicini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-06-26

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 3540445390

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2000, held in Berlin, Germany in August 2000. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book; they are organized in topical sections on emerging issues in multi-agent systems engineering, coordination models and technologies for multi-agent systems, and methodologies and tools.