Agent-oriented Software Engineering V: 5th International Workshop, Aose 2004, New York, Ny, Usa, July 2004, Revised Selected Papers (lecture Notes In Computer Science)
by Paolo Giorgini /
2005 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
