Introduction to the special issue on challenges in agent-oriented software engineering

Search Based Software Engineering: Introduction to the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Introduction to the special issue on ontologies in agent systems

It is now more than ten years since researchers in the US Knowledge Sharing Effort envisaged a future where complex systems could be built by combining knowledge and services from multiple knowledge bases and the first agent communication language, KQML, was proposed (Neches et al., 1991). This model of communication, based on speech acts, a declarative message content representation language a...

Introduction to the special issue on agent autonomy in groups

This special issue of the Connection Science journal features ten papers on agent autonomy. The introduction describes the motivation for the special issue and briefly overviews the contributions. The papers in this volume are revised and extended version of selected papers from a workshop that was held in July 2002, in Edmonton, Canada, in conjunction with AAAI 2002 conference. This workshop f...

Breakthroughs and Challenges in Software Engineering J.UCS Special Issue

In the seminal 1968 NATO Conference on Software Engineering, F.L. Bauer defined this term as " the establishment and use of sound engineering principles in order to obtain software that is reliable and works efficiently on real machines ". In the beginning, most proposals focused on programming languages and techniques , which are currently in a rather elaborate state. Later, the discipline exp...

Introduction to the special issue on agent-based computational economics

A brief overview of agent-based computational economics (ACE) is given, followed by a synopsis of the articles included in this special issue on ACE and in a companion special issue on ACE scheduled to appear in Computational Economics. ( 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classixcation: B4; C6