MEnSA: Methodologies for the engineering of complex software systems: agent-based approach (Metodologie per l’ingegneria dei sistemi software complessi: approccio ad agenti)

The introduction of the agent paradigm and the agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) stand the traditional evolution of the informatics technologies. Today the evolution is very quickly and the engineer often works with technologies that not support the abstractions used in the design of the systems. For this reason the research on methodologies becomes the basic point in the scientific activity. This research now focuses on the agent paradigm, whose expressivity and level of abstraction allow to deal with complex problem (component distribution, knowledge representation and reasoning, communication and cooperation among autonomous and heterogeneous entities) in efficient way.