Context: Agent-based models play an important role in simulating complex emergent
phenomena and supporting critical decisions. In this context, a software fault may result in …

Agile software development methods are mostly built as a set of managerial guidelines and
development concepts on how to handle a software development but are not bounded to …

This paper describes, from motivations and main objectives to actual implementation, a
novel agent-oriented programming language called JADEL. JADEL is designed to support …

Software development required for constructing multi-agent systems (MAS) usually becomes
challenging and time-consuming due to the properties of autonomy, distributedness, and …

Development of software agents according to belief–desire–intention (BDI) model usually
becomes challenging due to autonomy, distributedness, and openness of multi‐agent …

Abstract iStar is a goal-based requirement modelling language, being used both in industrial
and academic projects of different domains. Often the language is extended to incorporate …

Context: A normative multi-agent system (NMAS) is composed of agents that their behavior
is regulated by norms. The modeling of those elements (agents and norms) together at …

In agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE), the application of model-driven
development (MDD) and the use of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) for Multi …

Intelligent agents are software components that can work autonomously and proactively to
solve the problems collaboratively. To this end, they can behave in a cooperative manner …

Software agents and Multi-agent Systems (MAS) composed by these agents are used in the
development of the complex intelligent systems. In order to facilitate MAS software …