Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV: Research Issues and Practical Applications - Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2006 edition

Marc Notes: The main motivation for producing this book is the Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS) workshop series ... [in particular]SELMAS 2005 ... organized in association with the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), held in Saint Louis, USA, in May 2005--Pref.; Full SELMAS 2005 workshop report issued in: ACM software engineering notes; v. 30, no. 4 (July 2005).; Includes bibliographical references and author index.; Also available in print.; Electronic reproduction.; UK: MyiLibrary; 2008. Table of Contents: Context-Awareness and Coordination -- Policy-Driven Configuration and Management of Agent Based Distributed Systems / Anand R. Tripathi, Devdatta Kulkarni, Tanvir Ahmed -- Views: Middleware Abstractions for Context-Aware Applications in Manets / Kurt Schelfthout, Tom Holvoet, Yolande Berbers -- An Adaptive Distributed Layout for Multi-agent Applications / Koenraad Mertens, Tom Holvoet, Yolande Berbers -- Self-organizing Approaches for Large-Scale Spray Multiagent Systems / Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli -- Coordination Artifacts as First-Class Abstractions for MAS Engineering: State of the Research / Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli -- Modeling -- Analysis and Design of Physical and Social Contexts in Multi-agent Systems / Florian Klein, Holger Giese -- Engineering Organization-Based Multiagent Systems / Scott A. DeLoach -- Developing and Evaluating a Generic Metamodel for MAS Work Products / Ghassan Beydoun, Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Brian Henderson-Sellers, G. Low -- Agent Roles, Qua Individuals and the Counting Problem / Giancarlo Guizzardi -- Requirements and Software Architecture -- A Product-Line Approach to Promote Asset Reuse in Multi-agent Systems / Josh Dehlinger, Robyn R. Lutz -- Characterization and Evaluation of Multi-agent System Architectural Styles / Paul Davidsson, Stefan Johansson, Mikael Svahnberg -- Improving Flexibility and Robustness in Agent Interactions: Extending Prometheus with Hermes / Christopher Cheong, Michael Winikoff -- Patterns for Modelling Agent Systems with Tropos / Haralambos Mouratidis, Michael Weiss -- Dependability -- On the Use of Formal Specifications as Part of Running Programs / Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo -- Adaptive Replication of Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems - Towards a Fault-Tolerant Multi-agent Platform / Zahia Guessoum, Nora Faci, Jean-Pierre Briot -- Author Index.

Contributor Bio:  Giorgini, Paolo Paolo Giorgini is Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento, Italy.