Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. The components of a WS are active and persistent computational entities that have autonomous ...
Hong Zhu, Bin Zhou, XinJun Mao, Lijun Shan, David ...
Software engineers continually strive to develop tools and techniques to manage the complexity that is inherent in software systems. In this article, we argue that intelligent agen...
Systems using Software Agents (or Multi-Agent Systems, MAS) are becoming more popular within the development mainstream because, as the name suggests, an Agent aims to handle task...
Chia-En Lin, Krishna M. Kavi, Frederick T. Sheldon...
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...
The paper presents an agent-oriented programming language SLABSp. It provides caste and scenario mechanisms in a coherent way to support the caste-centric methodology of agent-ori...