Giancarlo Fortino, Weiming Shen, Jean-Paul Barthès, Junzhou Luo, Wenfeng Li, Sergio Ochoa, Marie-Helene Abel, Antonio Guerrieri, Milton Ramos (a cura di)
2015 19th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD2015), pp. 1–6
IEEE Computer Society, Calabria, Italy
maggio 2015
Event-based systems (EBS) are nowadays the most viable sources of technologies and solutions for large-scale distributed applications. On the other hand, multi-agent systems (MAS) apparently provide the most viable abstractions and coherent methods to deal with complex distributed systems, in particular when advanced features – such as mobility, autonomy, symbolic reasoning, knowledge management, situation recognition – are required. In this position paper we discuss how the core concepts of EBS and MAS can in principle be matched and integrated, providing a sound conceptual ground for a coherent discipline for the engineering of complex software systems.