Telos: representing knowledge about information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Cognition, computing, and cooperation
Goal-directed requirements acquisition
6IWSSD Selected Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
A layered architecture for office delivery robots
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Software architecture in practice
Software architecture in practice
Information systems as social structures
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
The Semantics of Parts Versus Aggregates in Data/Knowledge Modelling
CAiSE '93 Proceedings of Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A Requirements-Driven Development Methodology
CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Modelling strategic relationships for process reengineering
Modelling strategic relationships for process reengineering
A Framework for Blending Agent Oriented Methodologies
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Advances in Intelligent IT: Active Media Technology 2006
Design and implementation of interactive design environment of agent system
IEA/AIE'07 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Industrial, engineering, and other applications of applied intelligent systems
Evaluating interaction of MAS providing context-aware services
KES-AMSTA'11 Proceedings of the 5th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
Evaluation of agents interactions in a context-aware system
Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence IX
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The Tropos project is developing concepts, tools and techniques for building agent-oriented software. This paper presents a quick overview of the project and then focuses on a specific problem: the identification of architectural styles for multi-agent systems (MAS). The proposed styles have been adopted from the literature on organization theory and strategic alliances. The styles are represented in i*, a framework designed to model social and intentional concepts. Each proposed style is evaluated with respect to a set of agent software qualities, such as predictability, adaptability and availability. The use of the styles is illustrated and contrasted with a software architecture for mobile robot reported in the literature.