This chapter introduces an agent-oriented software process for engineering complex systems called ASPECS. ASPECS is based on a holonic organizational metamodel and provides a step-by-step guide from requirements to code, allowing the modeling of a system with different levels of details using a set of refinement methods. This chapter introduces the ASPECS process using the documentation templat...

ion step is not amenable to formal proof. However, it is possible to validate a specification by proving challenging theorems concerning properties that the specification is expected to exhibit. If correct, these theorems reinforce the specifier’s understanding of the specification and its relationship with the underlying Problem Domain. If not, the specification probably needs to be changed to...

Holonic multiagent systems (HMAS) offers a promising software engineering approach for developing complex open software systems. However the process of building MultiAgent Systems (MAS) and HMAS is mostly different from the process of building more traditional software systems and it introduces new design and development challenges. This paper introduces an agent-oriented software process for e...

Methodology is generally a guideline for solving a problem, with specific components such as phases, tasks, methods, techniques and tools. In this paper, we will extend/adapt the ASPECS methodology by adding a new phase called Goal identification which allows identifying the Goals of the system from the beginning of the methodology. c © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection

Agent oriented software engineering (AOSE) is an emerging field in computer science  and  proposes some systematic ideas for multi agent systems analysis, implementation and maintenance. Despite the various methodologies introduced in the agent-oriented software engineering, the main challenges are defects in different aspects of methodologies. According to the defects resulted from weaknesses ...

Researches in crowd simulation tend to study systems which are more and more complex, large and realistic. Several models are using multi-agent based simulation in which agents are modeling pedestrians. In this case the system’s environment is a key concept which represents and manages the virtual world in which the agents are living. This paper proposes the definition of a multi-level environm...

agent oriented software engineering (aose) is an emerging field in computer science  and  proposes some systematic ideas for multi agent systems analysis, implementation and maintenance. despite the various methodologies introduced in the agent-oriented software engineering, the main challenges are defects in different aspects of methodologies. according to the defects resulted from weaknesses ...

The FIPA DPDF working group aims to propose a definition of method fragment to be used during a situational method engineering process, the fundamental elements it is composed of and the metamodel it is based on. Using the FIPA DPDF template, this paper presents the fragments issued from the methodology aspecs. The process of this methodology, the underlying metamodel and the workproducts relat...

Abstract The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (ASPECS) Band 6 scan (212–272 GHz) covers potential [C ii ] emission galaxies at ? z 8 throughout a 2.9 arcmin 2 area. By selecting on known Ly ? emitters (LAEs) and photometric dropout field, we perform targeted searches down to 5 ? luminosity depth L II ? 2.0 × 10 ? , correspon...