The growing interest for the design and development of multi-agent systems has brought to the creation of a specific research area called Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOS...
Engineering individual components of a multi-agent system and their interactions is a complex and error-prone task in urgent need of methods and tools. Prototyping is a valuable t...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Carles Sierra, Marc Es...
Software development can be thought of as the evolution act requirements into a concrete software system. The evolution, achieved through a successive series of elaborations and r...
Jamie L. Smith, Shawn A. Bohner, D. Scott McCricka...
We study the development of distributed agent environments as distributed event-based systems specified in the Ambient Event Calculus (AEC). The AEC is a logic-based formalism th...
Software systems should consist of simple, conceptually clean software components interacting along narrow, well-defined paths. All too often, this is not reality: complex compon...