Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IV - 4th International Workshop, AOSE 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003, Revised Papers (Paperback, 2004 ed.)

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 continuously change and evolve to accommodate new components and meet new requirements. Software must also operate on di- rent 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 so- ware systems. They o?er higher-level abstractions and mechanisms that address issues such as knowledge representation and reasoning, communication, coor- nation, cooperation among heterogeneous and autonomous parties, perception, commitments, goals, beliefs, and intentions, all of which need conceptual mo- ling. On the one hand, the concrete implementation of these concepts can lead to advanced functionalities, e.g., in inference-based query answering, transaction control, adaptive work?ows, brokering and integration of disparate information sources, and automated communication processes. On the other hand, their rich representational capabilities allow more faithful and ?exible treatments of c- plex organizational processes, leading to more e?ective requirements analysis and architectural/detailed design.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2935
Release date:	2004
First published:	2004
Editors:	Paolo Giorgini • Joerg Muller • James Odell
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	247
Edition:	2004 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-20826-6
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > General Promotions
LSN:	3-540-20826-7
Barcode:	9783540208266

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