TY - GEN
T1 - Panel
T2 - 4th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, ATAL 1997
AU - Kinny, David
AU - Treur, Jan
AU - Gasser, Les
AU - Clark, Steve
AU - Müller, Jörg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Multi-Agent Systems technologies are migrating from research labs to software engineering centres. If these technologies are to realize their potential, it will become increasingly important to develop and employ methodologies, accessible to software engineers, for specifying, analysing, designing, and verifying multi-agent systems. The panelists, who represented a broad range of approaches and experience in MAS theory and practice, addressed the following questions. What can we learn from existing software and knowledge engineering methodologies, such as object-oriented approaches? How can they be adapted and extended to apply to agent-based systems? How should MAS design and specification methodologies address the proliferation of MAS architectures and application environments? Is there any prospect of generic approaches? How important are efforts to standardize various aspects of MAS technology? What techniques and tools are needed to support agent-oriented design and development? What approaches, formal and practical, will allow us to verify and diagnose large-scale MAS applications? What can we learn from related domains, such as real-time and distributed systems?.
AB - Multi-Agent Systems technologies are migrating from research labs to software engineering centres. If these technologies are to realize their potential, it will become increasingly important to develop and employ methodologies, accessible to software engineers, for specifying, analysing, designing, and verifying multi-agent systems. The panelists, who represented a broad range of approaches and experience in MAS theory and practice, addressed the following questions. What can we learn from existing software and knowledge engineering methodologies, such as object-oriented approaches? How can they be adapted and extended to apply to agent-based systems? How should MAS design and specification methodologies address the proliferation of MAS architectures and application environments? Is there any prospect of generic approaches? How important are efforts to standardize various aspects of MAS technology? What techniques and tools are needed to support agent-oriented design and development? What approaches, formal and practical, will allow us to verify and diagnose large-scale MAS applications? What can we learn from related domains, such as real-time and distributed systems?.
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U2 - 10.1007/bfb0026745
DO - 10.1007/bfb0026745
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84961363545
SN - 3540641629
SN - 9783540641629
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
BT - Intelligent Agents IV
A2 - Singh, Munindar P.
A2 - Rao, Anand
A2 - Wooldridge, Michael J.
PB - Springer
Y2 - 24 July 1997 through 26 July 1997
ER -