Gaining wide acceptance for the use of agents in industry requires both relating it to the nearest antecedent technology (objectoriented software development) and using artifacts t...
We propose a preliminary methodology for agent-oriented software engineering based on the idea of agent interaction analysis. This approach uses interactions between undetermined a...
Abstract. The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy, cooperation, and goal-oriented behavior. Mainstream object-ori...
This paper describes a methodology that is being developed for designing and building agent-based systems for the domain of production control. In particular, this paper deals with...
Stefan Bussmann, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Woo...
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...