Component software: beyond object-oriented programming
Component software: beyond object-oriented programming
Tuple centres for the coordination of Internet agents
Proceedings of the 1999 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Coordination models: a guided tour
Coordination of Internet agents
Models and technologies for the coordination of Internet agents: a survey
Coordination of Internet agents
Agent-oriented software engineering for Internet agents
Coordination of Internet agents
A survey of programmable networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
The tropos software development methodology: processes, models and diagrams
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
MARS: A Programmable Coordination Architecture for Mobile Agents
IEEE Internet Computing
Agent Oriented Analysis Using Message/UML
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
ADK"Building Mobile Agents for Network and Systems Management from Reusable Components
ASAMA '99 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents
JGram: Rapid Development of Multi-Agent Pipelines for Real-World Tasks
ASAMA '99 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications Third International Symposium on Mobile Agents
Constructing Adaptive Software in Distributed Systems
ICDCS '01 Proceedings of the The 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Application-specific reuse of agent roles
Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Mobile agents for network management
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
NeCoMan: middleware for safe distributed service deployment in programmable networks
ARM '04 Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Adaptive and reflective middleware
Towards preserving correctness in self-managed software systems
WOSS '04 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT workshop on Self-managed systems
A Space-Based Generic Pattern for Self-Initiative Load Balancing Agents
ESAW '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
Integrating free-flow architectures with role models based on statecharts
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III
Connecting embedded devices using a component platform for adaptable protocol stacks
Component-Based Software Development for Embedded Systems
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The development of (internet) agents is often a tedious and error-prone task resulting in poorly reusable designs, since both the internal computation of the agent as well as the coordination support are developed in an ad hoc fashion. To improve the process of agent-oriented software development, we propose an agent design method that imposes the separation of internal computation from coordination aspects. This method comprises two dimensions: a design formalism and an agent design process. As an illustration of the presented method, we present the design of an internet agent that is entitled to deploy a distributed service in a computer network, without breaking the consistency of that network. The presented design method has resulted in the development of ACF (Agent Composition Framework), a component framework to build flexible internet agents. We argue that the presented design method combined with this infrastructure can promote a modular and easy to manage approach to the design and development of internet agent applications.