Abstract Design patterns document a field's systematic knowledge derived from
experiences. Despite the vast body of work in the field of multi-agent systems (MAS), design …

Mainstream visual psychology presents a 'sense then infer'account of vision that is
analogous to the 'sense then infer'processing that characterises the agent intention …

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) is rapidly emerging in response to urgent
needs in both software engineering and agent-based computing. While these two …

Die Autoren geben eine Einführung in Methoden und Tools für die agentenorientierte
Softwareentwicklung. Zunächst wird das Konzept der Agentenorientierung erläutert und das …

Motivated by the need for multiple agents to collaborate in order to solve a distributed
resource allocation planning problem, this paper develops a distributed framework that …

In this paper we describe an approach for modelling security issues in information systems.
It is based on an agent-oriented approach, and extends it with the use of security patterns …

Interaction protocols are widely recognized as an essential mechanism for coordination
within multi-agent systems. There is thus a need for coordination models for specifying …

Natural systems are regarded as rich sources of inspiration for engineering artificial systems,
particularly when adopting the multiagent system (MAS) paradigm. To promote a systematic …

While Internet of Things (IoT) systems/applications/platforms/devices materialize with
increasing speed, software engineering" reflection" does not follow" fast enough". The …

Scientific workflows have emerged as an important tool for combining the computational
power with data analysis for all scientific domains in e-science, especially in the life …