This paper presents the MESSAGE/UML agent oriented software engineering methodology and illustrates it on an analysis case study. The methodology covers MAS analysis and design an...
Giovanni Caire, Wim Coulier, Francisco J. Garijo, ...
The large amount of information that is spread over the Internet is an important resource for all people but also introduces some issues that must be faced. The dynamism and the un...
Sonia Bergamaschi, Giacomo Cabri, Francesco Guerra...
We take the position that large-scale distributed systems are better understood, at all levels, when locality is taken into account. When communication and mobility are clearly se...
Systems that support mobile agents are increasingly being used on the global Internet. Security concerns dealing with the protection of the execution environment from malicious ag...
Uwe G. Wilhelm, Sebastian Staamann, Levente Butty&...
In a simple cooperative MAS model where a collection of "querying agents" can send queries to a collection of "information agents", we formalize the problem of ...