Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures now appear to be more appropriate than traditional ones for building latest generation software that is typically concurrent, distributed, and dynamic. Since the fundamental concepts of multi-agent systems are social and intentional, rather than object, functional or implementation-oriented, the design of MAS architectures should be eased by using what we...

The detailed design of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is intended to introduce additional detail for each architectural component of the system according to agent-oriented design patterns. In this paper, we propose a process to perform the detailed design of MAS using UML-based diagrams and social patterns. This process is described in detail using the SPEM notation and is illustrated with the e-New...

This paper is devoted to exploring the relationships between computational agents, as they can be found in multi-agent systems (MAS) or Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), and the different techniques regrouped under the generic appellation “multi-agent based simulation” (MABS). Its main purpose is to show that MABS, despite its name, is in fact rarely based on computational agents. We b...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are widely acknowledged as an appropriate modelling paradigm for distributed and decentralized systems, where a (potentially large) number of agents interact in non-trivial ways. Such interactions are often modelled defining high-level interaction protocols. Open MAS typically benefit from a number of infrastructural components that enable agents to discover their peer...

This paper describes DCaseLP, a multi-language prototyping environment for Multi-Agent Systems. DCaseLP provides tools, languages, and methodological suggestions for engineering a MAS prototype from the late requirement analysis to the prototype implementation and testing. Full support for validating the MAS model by running the prototype in the JADE platform is offered. DCaseLP and its ancesto...

Use of multi-agent systems (MAS) in health-care domains is increasing. MAS is an appropriate technique for many medical domains due to the characteristics of the problems in this area. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) health care systems worldwide are faced with the challenge of responding to the needs of people with chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart failure and mental ...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have become increasingly mature, but this maturity does not make the traditional Object Oriented (OO) approaches obsolete. On the contrary, building MAS in combination with OO constructs allows the reuse of existing components. Similarly, OO methodologies can benefit from extension towards an agent abstraction and so make use of the methods and tools for MAS. The Agent...

Access control is a main security issue in the management of complex information systems as well as Multi-agent Systems (MAS). In this paper we discuss the application of the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) model in the context of TuCSoN coordination infrastructure for MAS. RBAC models and their extensions are currently considered the most effective approach for engineering access control in c...

This paper presents a kind of application of the software performance engineering to the area of agent-based systems. In a first part we will describe the general aspects and contents of multi agent systems (MAS) architectures. Then, a short presentation of the main software performance principles should motivate the measurement approaches for the MAS. Software agents can be intelligent as well...