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

By Ricardo Choren , Alessandro Garcia , Carlos Lucena , Alexander Romanovsky (eds.) , Paolo Giorgini , Tom Holvoet , Anand R. Tripathi , Devdatta Kulkarni , Tanvir Ahmed (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2006
ISBN
3540335803, 9783540335801
DOI
10.1007/11738817
Open Library ID
OL17726280M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3470468 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3914
Volume
v. 4
Edition
1
Pages
255\266
Topic
Technique
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2011-02-14 12:09:19
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Description

With the integration of computing and communication into the very fabric of our social, economic, and personal existence, the manner in which we think about and build software has become the subject of intense intellectual, scienti?c, and engineering reexamination. New computing paradigms have been proposed and new software architectures are being examined. The study of multi-agent s- tems (MAS) is one important movement energized by a growing awareness that application development may need to follow radically new paths. Fundamentally, MAS denotes a new software speci?cation and design paradigm. Moreover, when viewed in the context of large-scale deployment, it emerges as the embodiment of the quintessential concerns facing the software engineering community today. As computing and communication permeates the essential aspects of the societal infrastructure, software must become more nimble, slimmer, more natural, and more discrete. Software must integrate itself in an organic way into the activities it serves and the resources it exploits.

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