Towards clarifying the importance of interactions in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Inteligencia Artificial

Volumn 9, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 19-28

  Peña, Joaquin ^a   Levy, Renato ^b   Corchuelo, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex MultiAgent Systems; Interaction taxonomy; Organizational modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444466766     PISSN: 11373601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4114/ia.v9i25.766     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. G. Booch. Object-Oriented Design with Applications. Benjamin/Cummings, Redwood City, CA, 1990.
2. G. Caire, F. Leal, P. Chainho, R. Evans, F. Garijo, J. Gomez, J. Pavon, P. Kearney, J. Stark, and P. Massonet. Agent oriented analysis using MESSAGE/UML. In Proceedings of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE'01), pages 101-108, Montreal, 2001.
3. C. Castelfranchi. Founding agent's "autonomy" on dependence theory. In 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 353-357. IOSPress, 2000.
4. D'Souza and A.C. Wills. Objects, Components, and Frameworks with UML: The Catalysis Approach. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1999.
5. Kutluhan Erol, Jun Lang, and Renato Levy. Designing agents from reusable components. In AGENTS '00: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents, pages 76-77. ACM Press, 2000.
6. J. Ferber, O. Gutknecht, and F. Michel:. From agents to organizations: An organizational view of multi-agent systems. In Paolo Giorgini, Jörg P. Müller, and James Odell, editors, IV International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE'03), volume 2935 of LNCS, pages 214-230. Springer-Verlag, 2003.
7. N. Francez and I. Forman. Interacting processes: A multiparty approach to coordinated distributed programming. Addison-Wesley, 1996.
8. Jochen Fromm. The Emergence of Complexity. Kassel university press, 2004.
9. N. Jennings. An agent-based approach for building complex software systems. Communications of the ACM, 44(4):35-41, 2001.
10. A. Karageorgos and N. Mehandjiev. A design complexity evaluation framework for agent-based system engineering methodologies. In A. Omicini, P. Petta, and J. Pitt, editors, Fourth International Workshop Engineering Societies in the Agents World, volume 3071 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 258-274. Springer, 2004.
11. E. A. Kendall. Role modeling for agent system analysis, design, and implementation. IEEE Concurrency, 8(2):34-41, April/June 2000.
12. H. Mintzberg. The Structuring of Organizations. Prentice-Hall, 1978.
13. J. Odell. Agents and complex systems. Journal of Object Technology, 1(2):35-45, July-August 2002.
14. Object Management Group (OMG). Unified modeling language: Superstructure, version 2.0. Final adopted specification ptc/03-08-02, OMG, August 2003. www.omg.org.
15. J. Peña, R. Corchuelo, and J. L. Arjona. A top down approach for mas protocol descriptions. In ACM Symposium on Applied Computing SAC'03, pages 45-49, Melbourne, Florida, USA, 2003. ACM Press.
16. J. Peña, R. Corchuelo, and M. Toro. Representing complex multi-agent organisations in uml. In IX Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos JISBD'04, pages 159-170, Malaga, Spain, 2004.
17. J. Peña, R. Corchuelo, and J. L. Arjona. Towards Interaction Protocol Operations for Large Multi-agent Systems. In M. Hinchey, J. Rash, W. Truszkowski, C. Rouff, and D. Gordon-Spears, editors, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems (FAABS 2002), volume 2699 of LNAI, pages 79-91, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, 2002. Springer-Verlag.
18. T. Reenskaug. Modeling systems in uml 2.0 - a proposal for a clarified collaboration.
19. T. Reenskaug. A methodology for the design and description of complex, object- oriented systems. Technical report, Center for Industrial Research, Oslo, Norway, November 1.988.
20. T. Reenskaug. Working with Objects: The OOram Software Engineering Method. Manning Publications, 1996.
21. D. Snowden and C. Kurtz. The new dynamics of strategy: Sense-making in a complex and complicated world. IBM Systems Journal, 42(3):35-45, 2003.
22. C. Szyperski, D. Gruntz, and S. Murer. Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming. Addison-Wesley, second edition edition, 2002.
23. F. Zambonelli, N. Jennings, and M. Wooldridge. Developing multiagent systems: The gaia methodology. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., 12(3):317-370, 2003.