In the last years, an increasing number of computing systems are being realized taking advantage of autonomous agents. Traditional software engineering methodologies are insufficient to be used in the development of such systems because of the particular characteristics of autonomous agents. Therefore, a lot of work has been done to extend traditional software engineering methodologies for agen...

Agent-oriented software engineering is faced with challenges that impact on the adoption of agent technology by the wider software engineering community. This is generally due to lack of adequate comprehension of the concepts of agent technology. This thesis is based on the premise that the comprehension of the concepts of and the adoption of agent technology can be improved. Two approaches are...

INGENIAS is an agent oriented software engineering methodology for Multi-Agent Systems development. It combines agent research results with concepts and methods established in MESSAGE/UML. The result is a development process in the line of conventional software engineering processes, like object oriented software development paradigm or structured paradigm. INGENIAS defines deliverables and def...

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...

In recent years, the agent technology has evolved rapidly along with a growing number of agent architectures, theories and languages. Computer science and engineering communities considered agent technology as one of the most important and active area of research and development. Agent oriented software engineering has numerous applications in different areas such as information management, spa...

analysis and design of object oriented is onemodern paradigms for developing a system. in this paradigm, there are several objects and each object plays some specific roles. identifying objects (and classes) is one of the most important steps in the object-oriented paradigm. this paper makes a literature review over techniques to identify objects and then presents six taxonomies for them. the f...

The concept of Agent is being used with different meanings and purposes in two separate fields of software engineering, namely Requirements Engineering and Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. After an introduction to Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) and its evolution into Agent-Oriented Requirements Engineering (AORE), this chapter provides a review of some of the main Agent-Orien...

Embedded real-time systems play an important role in various application areas like plant automation, product automation or car electronics. In recent years, a considerable growth in the functionality has been observed. At the same time, expectations on systems’ flexibility at runtime are growing steadily. The agent-oriented software engineering approach is well suited for the development of de...

This paper presents the current state of this research work, aimed to develop a methodology for designing Adaptive Virtual Organizations. This paper includes both completed and remaining work on this topic.