Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems: The Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Handbook (Hardcover, 2004)

Concepts and Abstractions of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- Agent-Based Abstractions for Software Development.- On the Use of Agents as Components of Software Systems.- A Survey on Agent-Oriented Oriented Software Engineering Research.- Methodologies for Agent-Based Systems Development.- The Gaia Methodology.- The Tropos Methodology.- The MaSE Methodology.- A Comparative Evaluation of Agent-Oriented Methodologies.- Special-Purpose Methodologies.- The ADELFE Methodology.- The Message Methodology.- The SADDE Methodology.- The Prometheus Methodology.- Tools and Infrastructures for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- The AUML Approach.- FIPA-Compliant Agent Infrastructures.- Coordination Infrastructures in the Engineering of Multiagent Systems.- Non Traditional Approaches to Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- Engineering Amorphous Computing Systems.- Making Self-Organising Adaptive Multiagent Systems Work.- Engineering Swarming Systems.- Online Engineering and Open Computational Systems.- Emerging Trends and Perspectives.- Agents for Ubiquitous Computing.- Agents and the Grid.- Roadmap of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.