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...

Table of Contents:

• Fault Tolerance
• On Fault Tolerance in Law-Governed Multi-agent Systems
• On Developing Open Mobile Fault Tolerant Agent Systems
• Exception Handling and Diagnosis
• Challenges for Exception Handling in Multi-Agent Systems
• Exception Handling in Context-Aware Agent Systems: A Case Study
• Exception Diagnosis Architecture for Open Multi-Agent Systems
• Security and Trust
• SMASH: Modular Security for Mobile Agents
• Reasoning About Willingness in Networks of Agents
• Verification and Validation
• Towards Compliance of Agents in Open Multi-agent Systems
• Towards an Ontological Account of Agent-Oriented Goals
• Early Development Phases and Software Reuse
• Improving Multi-Agent Architectural Design
• Objects as Actors Assuming Roles in the Environment
• A Framework for Situated Multiagent Systems.