Agent oriented software development. Methods and tools

DOI10.1007/B138124MaRDI QIDQ3156784zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gerhard Weiss, Ralf Jakob

Publication date 11 January 2005

Published in Xpert.press (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/b138124

zbMATH Keywords

agent oriented software developmentmethodstools

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to computer science (68-01) General topics in the theory of software (68N01) Other programming paradigms (object-oriented, sequential, concurrent, automatic, etc.) (68N19)

Review text

The book is not an introduction into agent oriented software development in the scope of a textbook but rather an introduction into some selected methods and tools. So, it can be used as supplementary reading for teaching and information in this field. After a short introduction of important concepts of agent oriented software and application fields, the methods Gaia, MASSIVE, Zeus, MaSE, and Aalaadin are described. The scenario ``search and execution of software for handling of specified tasks is used to illustrate them. Following commonly accepted criteria the methods are evaluated by marks in the range from 1 to 5. The criteria are well described and there are given reasons for the marks. Nevertheless, it is not always possible to understand why, e.g., the mark in some case is 3 and not 2--3. The same approach as for methods is applied to the tools FIPA-OS, JADE, Zeus-Toolkit, MadKit, agentTool, and JACK. Summaries of the evaluation results are given in form of tables. The bibliography contains both a lot of citations of papers and books, and Website links.

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