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One of the most important reasons for the current intensity of interest in agent technology is that the concept of an agent, as an autonomous system capable of interacting with other agents in order to satisfy its design objectives, is a natural one for s
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Paolo Ciancarini Michael J. Wooldridge (Eds.)
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering First International Workshop, AOSE 2000 Limerick, Ireland, June 10, 2000 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 Ciancarini University of Bologna, Department of Information Science Mura Anteo Zamboni 7, 40127 Bologna, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Michael J. Wooldridge The University of Liverpool, Department of Computer Science Chadwick Building, Peach Street, Liverpool L69 7ZF, UK E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface Software engineers have derived a progressively better understanding of the characteristics of complexity in software. It is now widely recognised that interaction is probably the most important single characteristic of complex software. Software architectures that contain many dynamically interacting components, each with their own thread of control and engaging in complex coordination protocols, are typically orders of magnitude more complex to correctly and efficiently engineer than those that simply compute a function of some input through a single thread of control. Unfortunately, it turns out that many (if not most) real-world applications have precisely these characteristics. As a consequence, a major research topic in computer science over at least the past two decades has been the development of tools and techniques to model,
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