Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems II: Research Issues and Practical Applications

Requirements Engineering.- The Agent at the Center of the Requirements Engineering Process.- Lexicon Based Ontology Construction.- Multi-agent Systems and Security Requirements Analysis.- Software Architecture and Design.- Separation of Concerns in Multi-agent An Empirical Study.- Architecting the Design of Multi-agent Organizations with Proto-frameworks.- A Basic Taxonomy for Role Composition.- Modeling.- Object-Oriented Modeling Approaches to Agent-Based Workflow Services.- Using the MAS-ML to Model a Multi-agent System.- Software Engineering Challenges for Mutable Agent Systems.- Dependability.- Improving Exception Handling in Multi-agent Systems.- On Manageability and Robustness of Open Multi-agent Systems.- Security Mechanisms for Mobile Agent Platforms Based on SPKI/SDSI Chains of Trust.- MAS Frameworks.- A Scalable Environment for Multi-agent Development and Evaluation.- Role-Based Approaches for Engineering Interactions in Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems.- Evaluating Agent Cougaar, Aglets and AAA.