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ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
On Observing and Constraining Active Systems
While agents have emphasised the notion of active software components, they are not likely to be the only active components in agent-based systems. In this paper, we first discuss ...
Gianluca Moro, Mirko Viroli
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Formal Specification and Prototyping of Multi-agent Systems
Abstract. This paper presents a multi agent-oriented prototyping approach. It is a generic approach, applicable to a wide range of multi-agent systems. This approach relies on a fe...
Vincent Hilaire, Abder Koukam, Pablo Gruer, Jean-P...
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Engineering Social Order
Social Order becomes a major problem in MAS and in computer mediated human interaction. After explaining the notions of Social Order and Social Control, I claim that there are mult...
Cristiano Castelfranchi
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Models of Coordination
While software is becoming decomposed in more and more finegrained entities, the interactions amongst those become of major importance. While methodologies for building such compon...
Robert Tolksdorf
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Context-Dependency in Internet-Agent Coordination
The design and development of Internet applications can take advantage of a paradigm based on autonomous and mobile agents. However, agent mobility introduces peculiar coordinatio...
Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
From Analysis to Deployment: A Multi-agent Platform Survey
This paper presents a survey on multi-agent platforms, with a particular focus on methodology. It presents the four stages of the construction of a multi-agent system and derives f...
Pierre-Michel Ricordel, Yves Demazeau
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Exploiting UML in the Design of Multi-agent Systems
Abstract. Software engineering describes a system at different levels of abstraction. Agent-oriented software engineering introduces a new level, called the agent level, to allow t...
Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi
ESAW
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Combining Software Components and Mobile Agents
We present a first approach that combines the mobile agent and the compositional paradigms into a new agent-based compositional model. The aim of this work is to explore the capabi...
Mercedes Amor, Mónica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes,...