The rapid growth in research and development of agentbased software systems has led to concerns about how human users will control the activities of teams of agents that must actively collaborate. We believe that practical multi-agent systems developed will often be comprised of small teams of heterogeneous agents, under direct supervision by users acting as “team leaders”. We are now developin...

The recent years has seen a rapid growth of research interests in agent-oriented software development methodology. A great amount of work has been reported in the literature on formal models and logics of software agents. However, how to use such formalisms in the analysis and specification of agent-based systems remains as an open problem. Alternative approaches using semi-formal diagrammatic ...

FIPA is one of the main standards available within the software agent domain today. Software agents are based on the distributed intelligent agent domain, and are a multi-agent system. FIPA operates in an open environment that opens up for security issues, such as the problem of authentication of agents, securing communication, and preventing unauthorised activity from hackers or malevolent age...

systems. Nowadays, web services are the primary mean to provide interoperability with legacy applications and the large part of multi-agent applications have been realized without any strong requirement for the interoperability with other multi-agent applications. This paper presents the HDS software framework, which provides a software infrastructure to realize multi-agent applications that ei...

The recent years has seen a rapid growth of research interests in agent-oriented software development methodology. A great amount of work has been reported in the literature on formal models and logics of software agents. However, how to use such formalisms in the analysis and specification of agent-based systems remains as an open problem. Alternative approaches using semi-formal diagrammatic ...

As new requirements arise, on one hand, from the increasing complexity of modern software systems and, on the other hand, from the distribution of today’s information economies, it has been recognized that the modularity and reusability provided by existing techniques and approaches are insufficient. Although, each paradigm has its own contribution in the software engineering field on the suppo...

Software engineering describes a system at different levels of abstraction. Agent-oriented software engineering introduces a new level, called the agent level, to allow the software architect modelling a system in terms of interacting agents. This level of abstraction is not yet supported by an accepted diagrammatic notation even if a number of proposals are available. This paper shows how UML ...