Abstract. This paper reports on our work on three complementary directions, aimed at developing: (i) a theoretical framework named UFO (Unified Foundational Ontology) for (re) desi...
Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Jo&at...
Today’s software operate in a dynamic, organizational context and hence, it needs flexible architectures based in social and intentional concepts to enable software to evolve con...
Jaelson Castro, Carla T. L. L. Silva, John Mylopou...
Systems using Software Agents (or Multi-Agent Systems, MAS) are becoming more popular within the development mainstream because, as the name suggests, an Agent aims to handle task...
Chia-En Lin, Krishna M. Kavi, Frederick T. Sheldon...
In this paper, we examine the Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE) methodology and its applicability to developing organization-based multiagent systems, which are especially rele...
Abstract. The deployment of agent societies —as complex systems— in dynamic and unpredictable settings brings forth critical issues concerning their design. Organizational mode...
Loris Penserini, Virginia Dignum, Athanasios Staik...