RMAS-2003

Multi-agent systems are often characterised as extensions of object-oriented systems, an oversimplification that troubles designers trying to capture what is distinctive about MAS with OO tools. RMAS asked how agent-oriented software engineering could benefit from UML and other modelling languages, with Agent UML, AOR, PASSI and Tropos all on the table and the declared hope that a unification of the different approaches might come out of the confrontation. It was a session of the 7th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, and its proceedings were announced for Springer-Verlag.

• Methodologies for agent-based analysis and design
• UML and agent systems
• Code generation from UML specification
• Agent-based requirements analysis and specification
• Refinement and synthesis techniques for agent-based specifications
• Verification and validation techniques for agent-based systems
• Software development environments and CASE tools
• Formal methods for agent-based systems, including specification and verification logics
• Engineering large-scale agent systems
• Experiences with field-tested agent systems
• Definition of semantic information based on UML (ontologies, semantic web)
• Re-use approaches for agent-based systems: design patterns, frameworks, components, architectures