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Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems: Research Issues and Practical Applications

By Franco Zambonelli , Alessandro Garcia , Carlos Lucena , Viviane Silva , Anarosa Brandão , Christina Chavez , Carlos Lucena (auth.) , Andrea Omicini , Jaelson Castro (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2003
ISBN
3540087729, 9783540087724
DOI
10.1007/3-540-35828-5
LCC
QA76.758 .S64635 2003
Google Books ID
mU8rmVzQx1IC
Open Library ID
OL3686653M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3750260 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2603
Edition
1
Pages
287\298
Topic
Technique
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2009-12-04 00:34:26
Software Engineering; Computer Communication Netwo

Description

Nowadays, engineering large-scale software systems means dealing with complex systems composed of pervasive software components that move around and adapt to nondeterministic and open environments, like the Internet, in order to achieve systems design goals through the coordination of autonomously distributed services. The agent metaphor, in particular software agents and multi-agent systems (MAS), constitutes a promising approach for covering most of the software development life cycle, from conceptual modeling and requirements specification to architectural definition, design, and implementation. This book presents 17 carefully reviewed papers arranged in order to provide a coherent survey of how to exploit agent properties and MAS issues in today's software systems. The book offers the following topical sections: - software engineering foundations - requirements engineering and software architecture - coordination and mobility - reuse -dependability -empirical studies and applications

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