The current object-oriented development practice system analysis is documented through UML artifacts such as Class and Sequence diagrams. Since UML is a widely accepted modeling language, it also would be desirable to offer a UML support for the representation of agent-based system analysis artifacts. Although some central UML constructs are suitably matched for agent-based modeling, several im...

Multi-agent systems have proven to be a powerful technology because of their many advantages in distributed and complex environments however its disadvantage is that is lacks the interconnection with semantic web standards. In this paper we propose a new approach to enhance the interoperability and cooperation of Multi-Agent System (MAS) using semantic web technology (such as RDF and OWL) and w...

Multi-agent System Product Lines (MAS-PLs) are the integration of two promising technologies: Multi-agent Systems (MASs), which provides a powerful abstraction to model features with autonomous and pro-active behavior, and Software Product Lines (SPLs), whose aim is to reduce both time-to-market and costs in the development of system families by the exploitation of commonalities among family me...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are an emerging paradigm that has high potentials for developing distributed, open and concurrent complex systems. These systems often need to operate in dynamic environments and face the challenges of handling continuously changing requirements. These aspects increase the complexity of designing MAS. To handle the complexity and facilitate reasoning, software architec...

There are many agent tools for facilitating professional programmers in developing multi-agent systems (MAS); however, not all of them can be easily used by users who are not professional programmers. Also there is a need for MAS to provide explicit support for agent cooperation. Therefore, in this paper we propose a script language to enable non-professionals to build their agents in an easy w...

Agent-based computing has materialized as a powerful technology for developing complex software systems [1]. Having emerged, like so many other disciplines, from artificial intelligence, it is now a melting pot of many different research areas (artificial intelligence, software engineering, robotics, and distributed computing). Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) stems from a line of res...

Currently multi-agent systems (MAS, sometimes MASs) are receiving great attention as a promising approach for modeling, designing, and developing complex, decentralized and large-scale software systems. The captivating characteristics they provide such as decentralization, dynamic reorganization, self-organization, emergence, autonomy, etc., make them a perfect solution for handling current sof...

This paper presents the VisualAgent a software development environment that assists the specification, design and implementation stages of the agent system development lifecycle. The VisualAgent environment provides support for modeling multi-agent systems by using the MAS-ML modeling language and for implementing such systems by using the Agent Society Framework.

This technical report addresses a particular approach to modeling and analysis of the behavior of large-scale multi-agent systems. A broad variety of multi-agent systems are modeled as appropriate variants of cellular and network automata. Several fundamental properties of the collective dynamics of those cellular and network automata are then formally analyzed. Various loosely coupled large-sc...

As a result of the increasingly predominance of agent technology, there has been a lot of interest in developing agent-based methodologies. In particular, formal methodologies have recently received the attention of the agent community. One of the key features of these methodologies is their emphasis on the use of formal methods as a means to trust multiagent systems (MAS) to behave as expected...