This article introduces the current agent-oriented methodologies. It Discusses what
approacheshave been followed (mainly extending existing objectoriented and knowledge …

Since the first edition was published two years ago, much has been done on extend ing the
work done on SMART to address new and important areas [3-5, 54, 79, 80, 108 …

Abstract The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture
currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from …

In this paper we introduce the main issues related to the deployment of agent-based
systems in health care. First, we comment on the characteristics of health care problems and …

This paper presents a multi agent-oriented prototyping approach. It is a generic approach,
applicable to a wide range of multi-agent systems. This approach relies on a few …

Just as conventional institutions are organisational structures for coordinating the activities
of multiple interacting individuals, electronic institutions provide a computational analogue …

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) is rapidly emerging in response to urgent
needs in both software engineering and agent-based computing. While these two …

Die Autoren geben eine Einführung in Methoden und Tools für die agentenorientierte
Softwareentwicklung. Zunächst wird das Konzept der Agentenorientierung erläutert und das …

The rapid development of the field of agent-based systems offers a new and exciting
paradigm for the development of sophisticated programs in dynamic and open …

In this paper, we present a novel approach to computational modeling of social systems. By
combining the abstract state machine (ASM) formalism with the multi-agent modeling …