附註:Selected papers from the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2003) held May 2003, Portland, Ore.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Requirements Engineering -- The Agent at the Center of the Requirements Engineering Process -- Lexicon Based Ontology Construction -- Multi-agent Systems and Security Requirements Analysis -- Software Architecture and Design -- Separation of Concerns in Multi-agent Systems: An Empirical Study -- Architecting the Design of Multi-agent Organizations with Proto-frameworks -- A Basic Taxonomy for Role Composition -- Modeling -- Object-Oriented Modeling Approaches to Agent-Based Workflow Services -- Using the MAS-ML to Model a Multi-agent System -- Software Engineering Challenges for Mutable Agent Systems -- Dependability -- Improving Exception Handling in Multi-agent Systems -- On Manageability and Robustness of Open Multi-agent Systems -- Security Mechanisms for Mobile Agent Platforms Based on SPKI/SDSI Chains of Trust -- MAS Frameworks -- Farm: A Scalable Environment for Multi-agent Development and Evaluation -- Role-Based Approaches for Engineering Interactions in Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems -- Evaluating Agent Architectures: Cougaar, Aglets and AAA.
摘要:This book presents a coherent and well-balanced survey of recent advances in software engineering approaches to the development of realistic multi-agent systems (MAS). In it, the concept of agent-based software engineering is demonstrated through examples that are relevant to and representative of real-world applications. The 15 thoroughly reviewed and revised full papers are organized in topical sections on requirements engineering, software architecture and design, modeling, dependability, and MAS frameworks. Most of the papers were initially presented at the Second International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems, SELMAS 2003, held in Portland, Oregon, USA, in May 2003; three papers were added in order to complete the coverage of the relevant topics.
