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Agent-based software engineering
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The technology of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems is expected to alter radically the way in which complex, distributed, open systems are conceptualised and implemented. The paper considers the problem of building a multi-agent system as a software engineering enterprise. Three issues are focused on: how agents might be specified; how these specifications might be refined or otherwise transformed into efficient implementations; and how implemented agents and multi-agent systems might subsequently be verified, to show that they are correct with respect to their specifications. These issues are discussed with reference to a number of case studies. The paper concludes by setting out some issues and open problems for future research.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wooldridge, M.
- Venue
- IEE Proceedings - Software Engineering
- Published
- 1997
- Volume
- 144
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 26
- ISSN
- 1364-5080 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2105656578
- Cited by
- 803
- References
- 58
- FWCI
- 19.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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