Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI

Modeling Tools.- Operational Modelling of Agent Autonomy: Theoretical Aspects and a Formal Language.- Hermes: Designing Goal-Oriented Agent Interactions.- Modeling Social Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems: The AML Approach.- Analysis and Validation Tools.- Requirements Elicitation for Agent-Based Applications.- Formalisation and Analysis of the Temporal Dynamics of Conditioning.- Incorporating Commitment Protocols into Tropos.- Multiagent Systems Design.- Zooming Multi-Agent Systems.- Improving AOSE with an Enriched Modelling Framework.- Dealing with Adaptive Multi-agent Organizations in the Gaia Methodology.- Implementing Validated Agents Behaviours with Automata Based on Goal Decomposition Trees.- Implementation Tools.- Dynamically Generated User-Specified MAS.- Supporting the Development of Multi-agent Interactions Via Roles.- Automating Model Transformations in Agent-Oriented Modelling.- Paving the Way for Implementing Multiagent Systems: Integrating Gaia with Agent-UML.- Applying Multi-agent Concepts to Dynamic Plug-In Architectures.- Experiences and Comparative Evaluations.- Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process for Evaluating Multi-Agent System Architecture Candidates.- Estimating Costs for Agent Oriented Software.- Aspects in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: Lessons Learned.