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In this paper, I will show how the now popular concept of software patterns can be used in agent-oriented software engineering. To this end, I will present a possible structure of a pattern catalog for agent-oriented patterns and introduce a pattern description scheme that accounts for the specific needs of agent patterns. Then, I will provide two examples for how this scheme can be used to des...

AOSE methodologies and models borrow various abstractions and concepts from the organization and sociology disciplines. Although they all view multi-agent system as organized society, the organizational abstractions, assumptions, concepts, and models in them are actually used in different ways. It is, therefore desirable to have a systematic way of analyzing and comparing the organizational and...

Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) is one of the latest contenders in the historic development of programming paradigms. AOSE promises to be an exciting new software engineering approach with techniques more suited to the construction of large, complex software systems than those techniques belonging to the object oriented approach. To be a viable concept, there is a need for a uniform ...