Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems: Research Issues and Practical Applications (Paperback, 2003)

Software Engineering Foundations.- Taming Agents and Objects in Software Engineering.- The Role of Roles in Designing Effective Agent Organizations.- Requirements Engineering and Software Architecture.- Requirements Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems.- Requirements Traceability in Agent Oriented Development.- The Reflective Blackboard Pattern: Architecting Large Multi-agent Systems.- Coordination and Mobility.- A Declarative Approach to Agent-Centered Context-Aware Computing in Ad Hoc Wireless Environments.- Engineering Mobility in Large Multi Agent Systems: A Case Study in Urban Traffic Management.- Sustainable Information Ecosystems.- Reuse.- Achieving the Promise of Reuse with Agent Components.- Application-Specific Reuse of Agent Roles.- Assisting the Development of Aspect-Based Multi-agent Systems Using the Smartweaver Approach.- Dependability.- Dynamic and Adaptive Replication for Large-Scale Reliable Multi-agent Systems.- Achieving Software Robustness via Large-Scale Multiagent Systems.- Empirical Studies and Applications.- What Can Cellular Automata Tell Us about the Behavior of Large Multi-agent Systems?.- The RETSINA MAS, a Case Study.- Secure Multi-agent Coordination in a Network Monitoring System.- Towards Monitored Data Consistency and Business Processing Based on Declarative Software Agents1.