Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems

Alessandro Garcia

ISBN 10: 3540087729 / ISBN 13: 9783540087724

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Apr 2003, 2003

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Neuware -Nowadays, engineering large-scale software systems means dealing with complex systems composed of pervasive software components that move around and adapt to nondeterministic and open environments, like the Internet, in order to achieve systems design goals through the coordination of autonomously distributed services. The agent metaphor, in particular software agents and multi-agent systems (MAS), constitutes a promising approach for covering most of the software development life cycle, from conceptual modeling and requirements specification to architectural definition, design, and implementation.This book presents 17 carefully reviewed papers arranged in order to provide a coherent survey of how to exploit agent properties and MAS issues in today's software systems. The book offers the following topical sections: software engineering foundations requirements engineering and software architecture coordination and mobility reusedependabilityempirical studies and applicationsSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 304 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Apr 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540087729
• ISBN 13: 9783540087724
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Nowadays, engineering large-scale software systems means dealing with complex systems composed of pervasive software components that move around and adapt to nondeterministic and open environments, like the Internet, in order to achieve systems design goals through the coordination of autonomously distributed services. The agent metaphor, in particular software agents and multi-agent systems (MAS), constitutes a promising approach for covering most of the software development life cycle, from conceptual modeling and requirements specification to architectural definition, design, and implementation.

This book presents 17 carefully reviewed papers arranged in order to provide a coherent survey of how to exploit agent properties and MAS issues in today's software systems. The book offers the following topical sections:

- software engineering foundations

- requirements engineering and software architecture

- coordination and mobility

- reuse

-dependability

-empirical studies and applications