During the last decade the continuous growth of the Web resulted in a significant development shift from simple types of software applications to distributed multi-tier web-based applications. In general, distributed systems are by nature more complex than centralized systems. As a result, the software engineering tasks of these systems are also complicated. Unlike traditional software applicat...

Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is rapidly emerging in response to urgent needs in both software engineering and agent-based computing. While these two disciplines co-existed without remarkable interaction until some years ago, today there is rich and fruitful interaction among them and various approaches are available that bring together techniques, concepts and ideas from both side...

Integration and reusing of different kinds of information and software tools is a pressing necessity that more and more complex applications have to cope with. This fact and the distributed nature of many applications made it very appealing to use multi–agent technology. However, agent–based software still lacks well founded development methodologies, thus rapid prototyping and executable speci...

Software agent is autonomous technology that helps a lot the human being in performing task. The capability of to take actions on behalf one reasons why researchers or developers systems adapt characteristics either form physical behaviours. Sincerity ethical behaviour can be instilled software environment system. To instil such as sincerity, belief-desire-intention (BDI) architecture should de...

Agent modelling in software engineering is a relatively young area, and there are, as yet, no standard methodologies, development tools, or software architectures. Although our work is emphasized on to represent the agent specifications using different views, they are not oriented for software engineering in terms of providing a modeling notation that directly supports software development. The...

– This paper outlines a methodology to test agent's intelligence using the general intelligence factor (factor g) and the theory of multiple intelligence in humans. The method presented is also based on the evolutionary theory and deals with knowledge as a kind of stored intelligence. A set of tests assess the multiple intelligences of the agents analyzing their behavior and performance in diff...

SUMPY is a software agent “living” in and helping to maintain a UNIX file system for better disk space utilization by compressing and backing up. Built using subsumption architecture, SUMPY displays a “plug and play” property. A new UNIX maintenance task can be added to SUMPY’s repertoire without modification of existing layers. One of SUMPY’s layers sports a fuzzy control mechanism enabling it...