Agent-based computing is a promising approach for develo** applications in complex
domains. However, despite the great deal of research in the area, a number of challenges …

Build your own intelligent agent system... Intelligent agent technology is a tool of modern
computer science that can be used to engineer complex computer programmes that behave …

Agent technology currently plays an important role in complex software development. The
underlying paradigm offers a large repertoire of original concepts, architectures, interaction …

The ability of production companies to rapidly develop and deploy effective and efficient
control systems is critical for success in the consumer-driven environment of contemporary …

Software agents offer a range of benefits to the development of complex software systems.
However, before these benefits can be realised by the computing industry there is a need for …

In some areas of software engineering research, there are several metamodels claiming to
capture the main issues. Though it is profitable to have variety at the beginning of a research …

Numerous methodologies for develo** agent-based systems have been proposed in the
literature. However, their application is still limited due to their lack of maturity. Evaluating …

Multiple agent-oriented methodologies has been introduced in recent years, although only
partial evaluations of these have been offered. As a result, it is difficult to select a …

More and more effort is made to provide methodologies for the development of agent–based
systems. Awareness has grown that these are necessary to develop high quality agent …

Ontologies offer significant benefits to multi-agent systems: interoperability, reusability,
support for multi-agent system (MAS) development activities (such as system analysis and …