Publication year: 2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-73131-3
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Software is present in every aspect of our lives, pushing us inevitably towards a world of distributed computing systems. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of large-scale distributed systems. Multi-agent systems (MASs) and their underlying theories provide a more natural support for ensuring important agent properties, such as autonomy, environment heterogeneity, organization and openness. Nevertheless, a software agent is an inherently more complex abstraction, posing new challenges to software engineering. Without adequate development te- niques and methods, MASs will not be sufficiently dependable, thus making their wide adoption by the industry more difficult. The dependability of a computing system is its ability to deliver a service that can be justifiably trusted.
Subject: Computer Science, Software Engineering, agent architectures, agent-based software engineering, agent-based workflow services, agent-oriented modeling, agent-oriented software engineering, ambient intelligence, architectural design, availability, contextawareness, design, multi-agent system, proving, validation, verification