Agent-based computing remains an active field of research with the goal building (semi-)autonomous software for dynamic ecosystems. Today, this task should be realized using dedicated, specialized frameworks. Over almost 40 years, multiple agent platforms have been developed. While many them “abandoned”, others remain active, and new ones are constantly being released. This contribution present...

The technology of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems seems set to radically alter the way in which complex, distributed, open systems are conceptualized and implemented. The purpose of this paper is to consider the problem of building a multi-agent system as a software engineering enterprise. The article focuses on three issues: (i) how agents might be specified; (ii) how these specific...

Agent-oriented techniques represent an exciting new means of analysing, designing and building complex software systems. They have the potential to significantly improve current practice in software engineering and to extend the range of applications that can feasibly be tackled. Yet, to date, there have been few serious attempts to cast agent systems as a software engineering paradigm. This pa...

Agent-based computing represents an exciting new synthesis both for Artificial Intelligence (and, more generally, Computer Science. It has the potential to significantly improve the theory and the practice of modeling, designing, and implementing computer systems. Yet, to date, there has been little systematic analysis of what makes the agent-based approach such an appealing and powerful comput...

It has previously been claimed that agent technologies facilitate software development by virtue of their high-level abstractions for interactions. We address a more specific characterization and utility. We believe that it is important to distinguish agent technologies from other software technologies by virtue of a set of unique software characteristics. This is in contrast to much in the lit...

In this document, I discuss a multi-agent system for portal server. The document structure is as follows: For the system analysis, the system specifications are presented. Apart from the business case and system description, I make great efforts on the requirement specification in which the system use case is discussed in detail. For the general design, the system architecture is discussed, and...

to object-oriented systems, better able to address the new demands on software. In multi-agent systems, heterogeneous agents goals. In addition to being a technological building block, an agent, also known as an actor, is an important modeling abstraction that can be used at different stages of software engineering. The authors while teaching agent-related subjects and interacting with industry...