The construction of multi-agent systems as an engineering discipline

  • Authors:
  • Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The construction of multi-agent systems is starting to become a main issue in agent research. Using the Computer Science point of view, the development of agent systems has been considered mainly a problem of elaborating theories, constructing programming languages implementing them, or formally defining agent architectures. This effort has allowed important advances, including a growing independence of Artificial Intelligence. The results have the potential to become a new paradigm, the agent paradigm. However, the acceptance of this paradigm requires its application in real industrial developments. This paper uses this need of addressing real developments to justify the use of software engineering as driving force in agent research. The paper argues that only by means of software engineering, a complex development can be completed successfully.