Paper Info
Title
Panel: Methodologies for Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract
Multi-Agent Systems technologies are migrating from research labs to software engineering centres. If these technologies are to realize their potential, it will become increasingly important to develop and employ methodologies, accessible to software engineers, for specifying, analysing, designing, and verifying multi-agent systems. The panelists, who represented a broad range of approaches and experience in MAS theory and practice, addressed the following questions. –  What can we learn from existing software and knowledge engineering methodologies, such as object-oriented approaches? How can they be adapted and extended to apply to agent-based systems? –  How should MAS design and specification methodologies address the proliferation of MAS architectures and application environments? Is there any prospect of generic approaches? How important are efforts to standardize various aspects of MAS technology? –  What techniques and tools are needed to support agent-oriented design and development? –  What approaches, formal and practical, will allow us to verify and diagnose large-scale MAS applications? What can we learn from related domains, such as real-time and distributed systems?
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1007/BFb0026745
ATAL
Keywords
Field
DocType
multi-agent systems,multi agent system,distributed system,knowledge engineering,software engineering
System of systems engineering,Systems engineering,Computer science,Knowledge management,Distributed design patterns,Multi-agent system,Software system,Software,Knowledge engineering,Component-based software engineering
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1365
0302-9743
3-540-64162-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.46
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Kinny11940210.96
Jan Treur22983380.89
Les Gasser31601261.00
Steve Clark440.46
Jörg P. Müller5896144.69