One of the most important reasons for the current intensity of interest in agent technology is that the concept of an agent, as an autonomous system capable of interacting with other agents in order to satisfy its design objectives, is a natural one for software designers. Just as we can understand many systems as being composed of essentially passive objects, which have a state and upon which we can perform operations, so we can understand many others as being made up of interacting semi-autonomous agents. This book brings together revised versions of papers presented at the First International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2000, held in Limerick, Ireland, in conjunction with ICSE 2000, and several invited papers. As a comprehensive and competent overview of agent-oriented software engineering, the book addresses software engineers interested in the new paradigm and technology as well as research and development professionals active in agent technology.
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Part I: Conceptual Foundations Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: The State of the Art Interaction-Oriented Programming Issues in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Agent-Based Software Engineering Onn Shehory Part II: UML for AOSE Agent UML: A Formalism for Specifying Multiagent Software Systems Agent-Oriented Modeling with Graph Transformation Representing Agent Interaction Protocols in UML Part III: Methodologies for AO Analysis and Design On the Identification of Agents in the Design of Production Control Systems Agent Software Engineering with Role Modelling Designing Agent-Oriented Systems by Analysing Agent Interactions Andrea Omicini A Modelling Approach for Agent Based Systems Design An Overview of the Multiagent Systems Engineering Methodology Mark E Wood and Scott A. DeLoach Nobukazu Yoshioka, Yasuyuki Tahara, Akihiko Ohsuga, and Shinichi Honiden Organizational Abstractions for the Analysis and Design of Multi-agent Systems Part IV: Reuse Reuse and Abstraction in Verification: Agents Acting in Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur, and Wieke de Vries Part V: Applications and Experiences Strategy Selection-Based Meta-level Reasoning for Multi-agent Problem-Solving Introducing the Adaptive Agent Oriented Software Architecture and Its Application in Natural Language User Interfaces Babak Hodjat and Makoto Amamiya Adding Extensible Synchronization Capabilities to the Agent Model of a FIPA-Compliant Agent Platform Agostino Poggi and Giovanni Rimassa Author Index