This special issue of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems sought research articles that discuss relevant topics for the current trends in on software agent-based systems. Topics interest included techniques technologies to engineer systems, as well languages, frameworks, infrastructures broadly related

Due to the increased applications of agents, Agent-oriented software becomes large and complex. To support systematic developments of such a software, Agent-oriented software development methodology needs to be developed. This paper focuses on modeling phase of agent-oriented software development. For the Agent-oriented software modeling, Agent Elicitation method, Intra and Inter Agent modeling...

The use of intelligent agents is on the rise, fueled by the unprecedented growth in the Internet and web based applications. Consequently, agent-oriented software is becoming large and complex. To support a systematic development of such software, an agent-oriented software development methodology is necessary. This paper focuses on the modeling phase of agent-oriented software life cycle and, ...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are composed of heterogeneous agent with distinct agent properties, such as adaptation, mobility, collaboration, roles, and learning. The agent paradigm per se is not new since it has its roots in the Artificial Intelligent research. However, an important issue in getting the agent technology into mainstream software development is the creation of appropriate software ...