TY - BOOK ID - 5448227 TI - Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IV : 4th International Workshop, AOSE 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15, 2003, Revised Papers AU - Giorgini, Paolo. AU - Müller, Jörg. AU - Odell, James. AU - AOSE 2003 PY - 2004 VL - 2935 SN - 03029743 SN - 128030670X 9786610306701 3540246207 3540208267 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Software engineering KW - Intelligent agents (Computer software) KW - Computer science. KW - Software engineering. KW - Logic design. KW - Artificial intelligence. KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Computer Science KW - Computer programming. KW - Programming languages (Electronic computers). KW - Computer logic. KW - Computer Science. KW - Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. KW - Software Engineering. KW - Programming Techniques. KW - Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters. KW - Logics and Meanings of Programs. KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). KW - AI (Artificial intelligence) KW - Artificial thinking KW - Electronic brains KW - Intellectronics KW - Intelligence, Artificial KW - Intelligent machines KW - Machine intelligence KW - Thinking, Artificial KW - Bionics KW - Cognitive science KW - Digital computer simulation KW - Electronic data processing KW - Logic machines KW - Machine theory KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Simulation methods KW - Fifth generation computers KW - Neural computers KW - Computer science logic KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Computer languages KW - Computer program languages KW - Computer programming languages KW - Machine language KW - Languages, Artificial KW - Computers KW - Electronic computer programming KW - Electronic digital computers KW - Programming (Electronic computers) KW - Coding theory KW - Computer software engineering KW - Engineering KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Programming KW - Artificial Intelligence. KW - Design, Logic KW - Design of logic systems KW - Digital electronics KW - Electronic circuit design KW - Logic circuits KW - Switching theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5448227 AB - The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, ent- prise resource planning and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly changed our views on software systems. Nowadays, software is to be based on open architectures that continuously change and evolve to accommodate new components and meet new requirements. Software must also operate on di- rent platforms, without recompilation, and with minimal assumptions about its operating environment and its users. Furthermore, software must be robust and autonomous, capable of serving a naive user with a minimum of overhead and interference. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of so- ware systems. They o?er higher-level abstractions and mechanisms that address issues such as knowledge representation and reasoning, communication, coor- nation, cooperation among heterogeneous and autonomous parties, perception, commitments, goals, beliefs, and intentions, all of which need conceptual mo- ling. On the one hand, the concrete implementation of these concepts can lead to advanced functionalities, e.g., in inference-based query answering, transaction control, adaptive work?ows, brokering and integration of disparate information sources, and automated communication processes. On the other hand, their rich representational capabilities allow more faithful and ?exible treatments of c- plex organizational processes, leading to more e?ective requirements analysis and architectural/detailed design. ER -