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SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Agent Roles, Qua Individuals and the Counting Problem
Despite the relevance of the concept of role for conceptual modeling and agent-orientation, there is still in the literature a lack of consensus on the meaning of this notion and h...
Giancarlo Guizzardi
SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Policy-Driven Configuration and Management of Agent Based Distributed Systems
In this paper, we demonstrate a policy based approach for building and managing large scale agent based systems. We identify different classes of policies for agent based componen...
Anand R. Tripathi, Devdatta Kulkarni, Tanvir Ahmed
SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Product-Line Approach to Promote Asset Reuse in Multi-agent Systems
Software reuse technologies have been a driving force in significantly reducing both the time and cost of software specification, development, maintenance and evolution. However, t...
Josh Dehlinger, Robyn R. Lutz
SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Engineering Organization-Based Multiagent Systems
In this paper, we examine the Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE) methodology and its applicability to developing organization-based multiagent systems, which are especially rele...
Scott A. DeLoach
SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Characterization and Evaluation of Multi-agent System Architectural Styles
We argue that it is useful to study classes of Multi-Agent System (MAS) architectures, corresponding to architectural styles in addition to particular tures. In this work we focus ...
Paul Davidsson, Stefan J. Johansson, Mikael Svahnb...
SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Improving Flexibility and Robustness in Agent Interactions: Extending Prometheus with Hermes
Abstract. A crucial part of multi-agent system design is the design of agent interactions. Traditional approaches to designing agent interaction use interaction protocols, which fo...
Christopher Cheong, Michael Winikoff