Keywords:
simulation
intelligent agents
multiparadigm languages
self-organising systems
pervasive computing
multiagent systems
software infrastructure
autonomous systems
software engineering
coordination
distributed systems
programming languages
- Multiparadigm languages for pervasive intelligent systems
- Methodologies for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
- Agent-based complex system simulation
- Software infrastructure for complex systems
- Autonomous systems
- Self-organising systems
- Agents & artefacts: a meta model for
MAS – The A&A (agents and artefacts) meta-model
provides a new conceptual foundation for the discipline of MAS
(multi-agent system), and more generally of the complex software
systems built as MAS. Agent-oriented models, technologies and
methodologies can be revised and extended according to the new
paradigm. The research aims at fully developing the notions of
artefact and workspace for agents, their use relation with agents,
and their cognitive properties as well, and at drawing all
consequences of the A&A meta-models in terms of methodologies,
models and technologies.
- Methodologies for Agent-Oriented Software
Engineering – Agent-based models overcome the limits of
the current mainstream in software engineering, and promote new and
more expressive methodological approaches to complex systems
engineering.
- Agent-based complex system simulation – MAS
represent a new paradigm for simulation of complex systems such as
biosystems, social systems, etc, promoting the integration of
traditional top-down approaches based on mathematical models with
bottom-up computational approaches.
- Software infrastructure for complex systems –
Complexity of today software systems calls for more and more
expressive and powerful software infrastructures, promoting the
construction of well-engineered environment by means of virtual
workspaces, and supporting artificial cognitive
processes.
- Declarative technologies for distributed and pervasive
systems – Declarative technologies and languages like
Prolog and their derivatives could play a key role in the
engineering of complex systems, and should then be re-defined and
extended to adapt to the new distributed and pervasive application
scenarios.
