Mobile agents provide an effective and flexible style to develop advanced distributed systems. In order to promote interoperability and ensure the quality of mobile agent systems, it is necessary to formalize software architecture of mobile agent systems. In this paper, we not only define the software architecture of interoperable mobile agent systems using predicate transition nets, but also a...

Agent-based programming comes us as a next generation programming paradigm. However, we have not been ready yet to fully use it without having sound and concrete software engineering methods and tools to facilitate agent-based software development. In this paper we propose a new software engineering process based on the BDI agent concept. We have refined and extend substantially our previous wo...

Reliability is a major issue in new software architectures (such as multi-agent systems or software component based architectures) as they aim at integrating separately developed software parts. In this paper, we focus on both multi-agent systems and a crucial feature to ensure software reliability: an appropriate exception handling system. We first introduce the terminology and main concepts o...

This paper details the implementation of a software framework that aids the development of distributed and self-configurable software systems. This framework is an instance of a novel integration strategy called SoSAA (SOcially Situated Agent Architecture), which combines Component-Based Software Engineering [15] and Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, drawing its inspiration from hybrid agent...

This thesis presents SodaBot, a general-purpose software agent user-environment and construction system. Its primary component is the basic software agent | a computational framework for building agents which is essentially an agent operating system. We also present a new language for programming the basic software agent whose primitives are designed around human-level descriptions of agent act...

December 2013 Vol.14 No.1 IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin Abstract—An important decision when developing a software agent is the design of its internal architecture. Several models of deliberative and reactive architectures have already been proposed. However, approaches of hybrid software architectures that combine deliberative and reactive components, with the advantages of both behavio...

This paper describes a multi-agent based availability prediction approach for the reconfigurable networked software system based on the complex system’s model and simulation. Firstly, the definition of the features and availability of reconfigurable networked software system is introduced. Secondly, on the basis of the multi-agent based networked software system modeling method, an availability...

Agent-oriented techniques characterize an exciting new way of analyzing, designing and building complex software systems in real time world. These techniques have the prospective to significantly improve current practice in software engineering and to extend the range of applications that can feasibly be tackled. The Agent Oriented Programming & Software Engineering is being focused to design d...

Making software adaptable to evolving requirements is a challenge for the software industry. The reason behind it is that adaptation compels software developers to follow almost all software developmental stages, from code development to software deployment. Due to this, any change in requirements, the iteration should be re-initiated. Thereby, adaptation requires software reconfiguration and r...

Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) is a rapidly developing area of research. Current research and development primarily focuses on the analysis, design and implementation of agent based software whereas testing is less prioritised. Software testing is an important and indispensable part of software development process. Test case generation is the primary step of any testing process whic...