An Overview of Current Trends in European AOSE Research

The agent oriented approach is doing great steps towards its (not yet reached) maturity; from a software engineering point of view, it is today positively used for the analysis and design of complex systems. In this paper, which is related to the activity of the AgentLink AOSE TFG (Agent Oriented Software Engineering Technical Forum Group), we provide a perspective of current research trends in this area with a specific attention for results coming from European groups. We start with a discussion of what are agents, specially from the perspective of the software engineer. We present recent trends in modelling agents and multi-agent systems, and then we review the different activities in the agent development process: from analysis and design to implementation, verification and finally testing.

keywords   Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE), Agent oriented methodologies, Multi-Agent Systems

origin event

 Special Issue “Hot Topics in European Agent Research I”

 AL3-TF2

journal or series

 Informatica (Informatica)

container publication

 Special Issue “Hot Topics in European Agent Research I” (special issue, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

companion publication

 The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum: Main Issues and Hot Topics in European Agent Research (editorial/introduction/preface, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

 Agent Modeling Language (AML): A Comprehensive Approach to Modeling MAS (article in journal, 2005) — Ivan Trencansky, Radovan Cervenka

 The Tropos Metamodel and its Use (article in journal, 2005) — Angelo Susi, Anna Perini, John Mylopoulos, Paolo Giorgini

 On the Role of Environments in Multiagent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet

 Towards a Unified View of the Environment(s) within Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Abdelkader Gouaïch, Fabien Michel

 Coordination Artifacts: A Unifying Abstraction for Engineering Environment-Mediated Coordination in MAS (article in journal, 2005) — Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli

funding project

 AgentLink III — A Coordination Network for Agent-based Computing (01/01/2004–31/01/2006)

companion publication for

 Coordination Artifacts: A Unifying Abstraction for Engineering Environment-Mediated Coordination in MAS (article in journal, 2005) — Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli

 Agent Modeling Language (AML): A Comprehensive Approach to Modeling MAS (article in journal, 2005) — Ivan Trencansky, Radovan Cervenka

 The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum: Main Issues and Hot Topics in European Agent Research (editorial/introduction/preface, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

 Towards a Unified View of the Environment(s) within Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Abdelkader Gouaïch, Fabien Michel

 The Tropos Metamodel and its Use (article in journal, 2005) — Angelo Susi, Anna Perini, John Mylopoulos, Paolo Giorgini

 On the Role of Environments in Multiagent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet