Agent-based software engineering

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.

# Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation # Computer Science # Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies # Software Engineering Techniques and Practices

Michael Wooldridge (1997). "Agent-based software engineering". IEE Proceedings - Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1049/ip-sen:19971026