Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IV 4th InternationalWorkshop, AO
The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, ent- prise resource planning and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly changed our views on software systems. Nowadays, software is to be based on open architectures that co
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Paolo Giorgini J¨org P. M¨uller James Odell (Eds.)
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IV 4th International Workshop, AOSE 2003 Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003 Revised Papers
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Series Editors Gerhard Goos, Karlsruhe University, Germany Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, NY, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Volume Editors Paolo Giorgini University of Trento, Department of Information and Communication Technology Via Sommarive, 14, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy E-mail: [email protected] J¨org P. M¨uller Siemens AG, Corporate Technology Intelligent Autonomous Systems Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, 81730 Munich, Germany E-mail: [email protected] James Odell James Odell Associates 3646 West Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, enterprise resource planning and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly changed our views on software systems. Nowadays, software is to be based on open architectures that continuously change and evolve to accommodate new components and meet new requirements. Software must also operate on different platforms, without recompilation, and with minimal assumptions about its operating environment and its users. Furthermore, software must be robust and autonomous, capable of serving a naive user with a minimum of overhead and interference. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of software systems. They offer higher-level abstractions and mechanisms that address issues such as knowledge representation and
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