AOSE 2011

12th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Taipei, Taiwan, 02/05/2011

Since the early 1990s, multi-agent system researchers have developed a large body of knowledge on the foundations and engineering principles for designing and developing agent-based systems. The 11 past editions of the Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Workshop (AOSE) had a key role in this endeavor. For 2011, the workshop organizers and the Steering Committee decided to organize a special edition of AOSE. In particular, the objective was to wrap up the previous editions of the workshop with a discussion of the state of the art in the key areas of AOSE, and based on that outline the future of the field. The aim was to find a way out of the increasing fragmentation and fuzziness on software engineering in AOSE. The workshop program included invited papers complemented by accepted papers from the call for papers. Invited papers were presented by renowned researchers and engineers in different areas of the field, including agent-oriented methodologies, coordination infrastructures for multi-agent systems, programming agents and multi-agent systems, engineering multi-agent organizations, engineering self-organizing systems, and agents and services. In addition to the invited papers, the workshop received nine regular papers. In this volume, a selection of four revised papers is included. The papers cover various topics in the field, including agent architectures, inter-agent coordination, and work that focuses on reuse. The authors pay particular attention to challenges for future research and the position of their work in the broader field of agent-oriented software engineering and software engineering in general. The organizers are sincerely grateful to Jorge J. Gómez Sanz and Ingrid Nunes for the support with organizing the workshop.

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