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This state-of-the-art survey examines the credentials of agent-based approaches as a software engineering paradigm. The 15 revised full papers presented together with two invited articles were carefully selected from 49 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement for the Third International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2002, held in Bologna, Italy, during AAMAS 2002.The papers address all current issues in the field of software agents and multi-agent systems relevant for software engineering; they are organized in topical sections on- modeling, specification, and validation- patterns, architectures, and reuse- UML and agent systems- methodologies and tools- positions and perspectives

This book assesses the state of the art of agent-based approaches as a software engineering paradigm. The 15 revised full papers presented together with an invited article were carefully selected from 43 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement for the 4th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2003, held in Melbourne, Australia, in July during AAMAS 2003.The papers address all current issues in the field of software agents and multi-agent systems relevant for software engineering; they are organized in topical sections on- modeling agents and multi-agent systems-methodologies and tools- patterns, architectures, and reuse- roles and organizations.

The explosive growth of application areas such as e-commerce, enterprise resource planning, and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly changed our views on software systems. Nowadays, software is to be based on open architectures that continuously evolve to accommodate new components. Software must also operate on different platforms, without recompilation, and with minimal assumptions about its operating environment and its users. Furthermore, software must be robust and autonomous, capable of serving a naive user with a minimum of overhead and interference. Agent concepts hold great promises for responding to the new realities of software systems. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2004, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 as part of AAMAS 2004. The 15 revised full papers were carefully selected from 52 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling, design, and reuse and platforms.

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