Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems

Software Engineering Foundations.- Taming Agents and Objects in Software Engineering.- The Role of Roles in Designing Effective Agent Organizations.- Requirements Engineering and Software Architecture.- Requirements Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems.- Requirements Traceability in Agent Oriented Development.- The Reflective Blackboard Pattern: Architecting Large Multi-agent Systems.- Coordination and Mobility.- A Declarative Approach to Agent-Centered Context-Aware Computing in Ad Hoc Wireless Environments.- Engineering Mobility in Large Multi Agent Systems: A Case Study in Urban Traffic Management.- Sustainable Information Ecosystems.- Reuse.- Achieving the Promise of Reuse with Agent Components.- Application-Specific Reuse of Agent Roles.- Assisting the Development of Aspect-Based Multi-agent Systems Using the Smartweaver Approach.- Dependability.- Dynamic and Adaptive Replication for Large-Scale Reliable Multi-agent Systems.- Achieving Software Robustness via Large-Scale Multiagent Systems.- Empirical Studies and Applications.- What Can Cellular Automata Tell Us about the Behavior of Large Multi-agent Systems?.- The RETSINA MAS, a Case Study.- Secure Multi-agent Coordination in a Network Monitoring System.- Towards Monitored Data Consistency and Business Processing Based on Declarative Software Agents1.

Franco Zambonelli is professor in Computer Science at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia since 2001. He obtained the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering in 1992, and the PhD in Computer Science in 1997, both from the University of Bologna. His current research interests include: distributed and pervasive computing, agent-oriented software engineering, self-organization in distributed systems engineering. In these areas, he has published over 120 papers in international fora, co-edited 7 books, received several best paper awards, and has been invited speaker and tutorialist in several international conferences and workshops. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, AIIA, and TABOO.