Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems - SELMAS´2003

Author

Lucena, Catarina ; Garcia, Alvaro ; Castro, Jose

Author_Institution

Dept. de Inf., Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2003

fDate

3-10 May 2003

Firstpage

771

Lastpage

772

Abstract

Objects and agents are abstractions that exhibit Points of similarity, but the development of multi-agent systems (MASs) poses other challenges to Software Engineering since software agents are inherently more complex entities. In addition, a large MAS needs to satisfy multiple stringent requirements such as reliability, trustability, security, interoperability, scalability, reusability, and maintainability. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the current state of the art and the future research directions in software engineering for large-scale MASs. A particular interest is to understand those issues in the agent technology that make it difficult and/or improve the production of complex distributed systems.

Keywords

distributed processing; multi-agent systems; software agents; software engineering; agent technology; distributed systems; interoperability; multiagent systems; security; software agents; software engineering; software maintenance; software reliability; software reusability; Application software; Collaborative software; Computer science; Large-scale systems; Multiagent systems; Scalability; Security; Software agents; Software engineering; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. 25th International Conference on

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1877-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2003.1201278

Filename

1201278