Paolo Giorgini

James Odell

Jörg, P. Müller

The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, ent- prise 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 change and evolve to accommodate new components and meet new requirements. Software must also operate on di?- ent 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 promise for responding to the new realities of software systems. They o?er higher-level abstractions and mechanisms which address issues such as knowledge representation and reasoning, communication, coordination, cooperation among heterogeneous and autonomous parties, p- ception, commitments, goals, beliefs, and intentions, all of which need conceptual modelling. On the one hand, the concrete implementation of these concepts can lead to advanced functionalities, e.g., in inference-based query answering, tra- action control, adaptive work?ows, brokering and integration of disparate inf- mation sources, and automated communication processes. On the other hand, their rich representational capabilities allow more faithful and ?exible treatments of complex organizational processes, leading to more e?ective requirements an- ysis and architectural/detailed design.

5th International Workshop, AOSE 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 2004, Revised Selected Papers

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering V

Tom Anderson

Christopher Nuttall

Christine Amsden

James Pyles

L. Jagi Lamplighter

Misha Burnett

Morgon Newquist

J. F. Posthumus

Patrick Lauser

Audrey Andrews

Paul A. Piatt

Becky R. Jones

David Breitenbeck

Have you ever wanted to go to magic school? To cast spells and brew potions and fly on broomsticks and-perhaps-battle threats both common and supernatural? Come with us into worlds of magic, where students become magicians and teachers do everything in their power to ensure the kids survive long enough to graduate. Welcome to ... Fantastic Schools. Follow a mundane teacher striding into a world of magic, a spy on a mission, a guided tour of a magical school, a school dance for monsters, a dangerous reunion ... and many more. Follow us into worlds different, magical ...... And very human.Stories by: J.F. PosthumusChristine AmsdenJames PylesBecky R. Jones, Morgon NewquistTom AndersonLauserJames OdellMisha BurnettAudrey AndrewsChristopher G. NuttallPaul A. Piatt,L. Jagi Lamplighter, David Breitenbeck

Volume Two

Fantastic Schools

Jörg P. Müller

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.

4th International Workshop, AOSE 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003, Revised Papers

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IV

James Odell

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