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MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS, ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES, AND SIMULATED ORGANIZATIONS International Book Series Series Editor: Gerhard Weiss, Technische Universität München Editorial Board: Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA Yves Demazeau, CNRS Laboratoire LEIBNIZ, France Ed Durfee, University of Michigan, USA Les Gasser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, SC, USA Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, UK Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, MA, USA Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
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METHODOLOGIES AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR AGENT SYSTEMS The Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Handbook Edited by
Federico Bergenti Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy Marie-Pierre Gleizes Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (CNRS – INP – UPS), France Franco Zambonelli Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
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Contents
Contributing Authors Foreword Introduction
Part I
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Concepts and Abstractions of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Introduction 1 Agent-Based Abstractions fo
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