
The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling
MIT Press
Published on 21. August 2009
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-0-262-01311-6 (ISBN)
Description
A new approach for conceptualizing and modeling multi-agent systems that consist of people, devices, and software agents.Today, when computing is pervasive and deployed over a range of devices by a multiplicity of users, we need to develop computer software to interact with both the ever-increasing complexity of the technical world and the growing fluidity of social organizations. The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling presents a new conceptual model for developing software systems that are open, intelligent, and adaptive. It describes an approach for modeling complex systems that consist of people, devices, and software agents in a changing environment (sometimes known as distributed sociotechnical systems). The authors take an agent-oriented view, as opposed to the more common object-oriented approach. Thinking in terms of agents (which they define as the human and man-made components of a system), they argue, can change the way people think of software and the tasks it can perform. The book offers an integrated and coherent set of concepts and models, presenting the models at three levels of abstraction corresponding to a motivation layer (where the purpose, goals, and requirements of the system are described), a design layer, and an implementation layer. It compares platforms by implementing the same models in four different languages; compares methodologies by using a common example; includes extensive case studies; and offers exercises suitable for either class use or independent study.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
74 Tabellen, 141 s/w Abbildungen
141 b&w illus., 74 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-01311-6 (9780262013116)
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Persons
Kuldar Taveter is Professor and Chair of Software Engineering in the Department of Informatics at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.
Author
Professor and Chair of Software Innovation and EngineeringThe University of Melbourne
Professor, Chair of Software EngineeringTallinn Institute of Technology