Most people we know don't read a book's Preface. So, we'll keep it brief. Why read this
book? Why did we write it? The answer to both these questions is straightforward. We, the …

The complexity and scope of software systems continues to grow. One approach to dealing
with this growing complexity is the use of intelligent, multi-agent systems. However, due in …

In application domains, such as distributed information retrieval, content management and
distribution, e-Commerce, the agent-based computing paradigm has been demonstrated to …

Statecharts constitute an executable language for modelling event-based reactive systems.
The essential complexity of statechart models solicits the need for advanced model testing …

Today's software industry is tasked with building evermore complex software applications,
and multiagent system technology is a promising approach capable of meeting these new …

This paper presents the Process for Agent Specification, Simulation and Implementation
(PASSIM), a simulation-based development process for Multi-agent Systems (MASs), which …

To date several agent models and related programming frameworks have been introduced
for develo** distributed applications in terms of multi-agent systems in open and dynamic …

Over the last five years several agent system development methodologies have been
proposed and developed, with a number of them becoming well established and used …

The upcoming avenue of IoT, with its massive generated data, makes it really hard to train
centralized systems with machine learning in real time. This problem can be addressed with …