Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V Research Issues and Practical Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Choren, Ricardo (Editor), Garcia, Alessandro (Editor), Giese, Holger (Editor), Leung, Ho-fung (Editor), Lucena, Carlos (Editor), Romanovsky, Alexander (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4408
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Software engineering.; Computer programming.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Software Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Communication Networks.; Programming Techniques.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Software is present in every aspect of our lives, pushing us inevitably towards a world of distributed computing systems. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of large-scale distributed systems. Multi-agent systems (MASs) and their underlying theories provide a more...