Software engineering for multi-agent systems V : research issues and practical applications / / Ricardo Choren [and five others] editors

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York : , : Springer, , [2007]; ©2007
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2007.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 236 p.)
• Disciplina: 006.3
• Soggetto topico: Software engineering; Intelligent agents (Computer software)
• Persona (resp. second.): ChorenRicardo
• Note generali: "Some of the papers were initially presented at the 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems, SELMAS 2006, held in Shanghai, China in May 2006"--Page [4] of cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Fault Tolerance -- On Fault Tolerance in Law-Governed Multi-agent Systems -- On Developing Open Mobile Fault Tolerant Agent Systems -- Exception Handling and Diagnosis -- Challenges for Exception Handling in Multi-Agent Systems -- Exception Handling in Context-Aware Agent Systems: A Case Study -- Exception Diagnosis Architecture for Open Multi-Agent Systems -- Security and Trust -- SMASH: Modular Security for Mobile Agents -- Reasoning About Willingness in Networks of Agents -- Verification and Validation -- Towards Compliance of Agents in Open Multi-agent Systems -- Towards an Ontological Account of Agent-Oriented Goals -- Early Development Phases and Software Reuse -- Improving Multi-Agent Architectural Design -- Objects as Actors Assuming Roles in the Environment -- A Framework for Situated Multiagent Systems.
• Sommario/riassunto: Software is present in every aspect of our lives, pushing us inevitably towards a world of distributed computing systems. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of large-scale distributed systems. Multi-agent systems (MASs) and their underlying theories provide a more natural support for ensuring important agent properties, such as autonomy, environment heterogeneity, organization and openness. Nevertheless, a software agent is an inherently more complex abstraction, posing new challenges to software engineering. Without adequate development te- niques and methods, MASs will not be sufficiently dependable, thus making their wide adoption by the industry more difficult. The dependability of a computing system is its ability to deliver a service that can be justifiably trusted. It is a singular time for dependable distributed systems, since the traditional models we use to express the relationships between a computational process and its environment are changing from the standard deterministic types into ones that are more distributed and dynamic. This served as a guiding principle for planning the Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2006) workshop, starting with selecting the theme, “building dependable multi-agent systems.” It acknowledges our belief in the increasingly vital role dependability plays as an essential element of MAS development.
• Titolo autorizzato: Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V
• ISBN: 3-540-73131-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910483237503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Lecture notes in computer science. . -State-of-the-art survey ; ; 4408.