Where the Object-Oriented paradigm set about abstracting objects, iented (AO) theory draws on Psychology to abstract mentalist notions like: beliefs, perceptions, goals, and intent...
Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivatea methodology, called Tropos, for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion ...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...
: A growing demand for distributed and decentralized software, together with an increasing inherent complexity of these systems challenges traditional software engineering practice...
Debugging multi-agent systems, which are concurrent, distributed, and consist of complex components, is difficult, yet crucial. In earlier work we have proposed mechanisms whereby...
In object oriented programming, the functionalities of a system result from the interactions (message exchanges) among the objects allocated by the system. While designing object ...