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Complex Systems and Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

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Book cover Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems (EEMMAS 2007)

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Although there is a huge amount of work and valuable proposals about agent oriented software engineering, it seems that the paradigm has not been yet widely adopted by software industry. Some claim that there is a need for a killer application showing clearly the benefits of multi-agent systems with respect to other techniques. Others may consider the approach as too academic to be applied in real projects. However, in our opinion, the answer may be found in the simple explanation of lessons learned while developing applications with agent-orientation, and confronting these with object and component oriented solutions, especially when faced to the development of complex systems. This paper discusses contributions of multi-agent systems from a software engineering perspective, as a way to put in value some of the properties of the agent paradigm in the development of complex software systems.

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Juan Pavón & Jorge Gómez-Sanz

  2. Telefónica I+D, C/ Emilio Vargas 6, 28043, Madrid, Spain

    Francisco Garijo

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Pavón, J., Garijo, F., Gómez-Sanz, J. (2008). Complex Systems and Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. In: Weyns, D., Brueckner, S.A., Demazeau, Y. (eds) Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems. EEMMAS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5049. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85029-8_2

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