Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz Facultad de Informática Universidad Complutense de Madrid 28040 Madrid, Spain [email protected] Rubén Fuentes Facultad de Informática Universidad Complutense de Madrid 28040 Madrid, Spain [email protected] Juan Pavón Facultad de Informática Universidad Complutense de Madrid 28040 Madrid, Spain [email protected] Ivan García-Magariño Facultad de Informática Universidad Complut...

In this paper we argue how agent based simulation constitutes a new paradigm for the study and characterization of complex social systems. There is a growing interest among computer scientists in developing shells and specialized software for social scientists. We summarize the main features of some of these tools, and in particular, the usability of INGENIAS, a multi-agent system development f...

Self-organizing multi-agent systems (MAS) use different mechanisms to mimic the adaptation exhibited by complex systems situated in unpredictable and dynamic environments. These mechanisms allow a collection of agents to spontaneously adapt their behavior towards an optimal organization. This paper presents a self-organization approach that exploits several selforganizing principles through an ...

The development of applications distributed partly on handheld devices is becoming more and more important. This paper shows the use of mobile agents technology in the development of a distributed system, called SAIPE. It makes easier the reading of user e-mail from different accounts and the searching of documents in Internet with a PDA. SAIPE has been developed following the INGENIAS Agent Or...

This paper presents a chain of model transformations to guide and support the application of the INGENIAS development process. The MTGenerator tool generates these transformations with a Model Transformation By-Example approach, that is, automatically from pairs of model prototypes. The MTGenerator has the advantage over similar approaches and tools of being able to generate many-to-many transf...

The use of surveillance systems has grown exponentially during the last decade. Moreover, the agency paradigm has shown to be suitable for the design and development of complex systems such as surveillance systems. They provide autonomy, reactivity, social ability and pro-activeness to carry out surveillance tasks in a semi-automatic way, collaborating with users in a more effective manner. Age...

The increasing interest on Agent Oriented Software Engineering in the last years is mainly due to its suitability for the design and implementation of huge, complex, distributed systems. In this field, special attention has been paid to development processes, because of direct correlation between the quality of the product and the process followed to obtain it. At the moment, there is neither a...

This paper presents experimental results of our model-driven approach to agent based simulation. According to this, the development process for agent based simulation should focus on modeling rather than implementation (i.e., programming on some concrete agent simulation platform). This requires the use of transformation tools from simulation models to implementation code. Describing social phe...

Multi-agent Systems are at the moment an important new paradigm in software development. Several methodologies have been proposed for developing systems within this approach. Also new agile processes have been proposed to be combined with the meta-models of such methodologies. This paper shows how the use of one of those Agent Oriented methodologies following the Scrum process produces improvem...