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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering III: Third International Workshop, AOSE 2002 Bologna, Italy, July 15, 2002 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions

By Gerhard Weiss (eds.) , Alexander Artikis , Fausto Giunchiglia , Marek Sergot , Jeremy Pitt (auth.) , James Odell

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2003
ISBN
354000713X, 9783540007135
DOI
10.1007/3-540-36540-0
LCC
QA76.758 .A57 2002
Open Library ID
OL17613219M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4729463 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2585
Edition
1
Pages
234\237
Topic
Computers
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
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Description

Over the past three decades, software engineers have derived a progressively better understanding of the characteristics of complexity in software. It is now widely recognised thatinteraction is probably the most important single char- teristic of complex software. Software architectures that contain many dyna- cally interacting components, each with their own thread of control, and eng- ing in complex coordination protocols, are typically orders of magnitude more complex to correctly and e?ciently engineer than those that simply compute a function of some input through a single thread of control. Unfortunately, it turns out that many (if not most) real-world applications have precisely these characteristics. As a consequence, a major research topic in c- puter science over at least the past two decades has been the development of tools and techniques to model, understand, and implement systems in which interaction is the norm. Indeed, many researchers now believe that in future computation itself will be understood as chie?y a process of interaction.

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