Complex Systems and Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Although there is a huge amount of work and valuable proposals about agent oriented software engineering, it seems that the paradigm has not been fully accepted yet by software industry. Some claim that there is a need for a killer application showing the benefits of multi-agent systems with respect to other techniques without any doubt. Others may consider the approach as too academic to be applied in real projects. However, in our opinion, the answer may be found in the simple explanation of lessons learned while developing applications with agent-orientation, and confronting these with object-oriented solutions, especially when faced to the development of complex systems. This paper discusses contributions of multi-agent systems from a software engineering perspective, as a way to put in value some of the properties of the agent paradigm in the development of complex software systems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: EEMMAS
• Authors: Juan Pavón, Francisco J. Garijo, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz
• Keywords: Agent Oriented Software, Artificial Intelligence, EEMMAS 2007, Multi-agent Systems, Software Engineering