{"product_id":"software-engineering-for-multi-agent-systems-v-research-issues-and-practical-applications-9783540731306","title":"Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V: Research Issues and Practical Applications","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ricardo Choren\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Software Development \u0026amp; Engineering - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoftware is present in every aspect of our lives, pushing us inevitably towards a world of distributed computing systems. Agent concepts hold great promise for responding to the new realities of large-scale distributed systems. Multi-agent systems (MASs) and their underlying theories provide a more natural support for ensuring important agent properties, such as autonomy, environment heterogeneity, organization and openness. Nevertheless, a software agent is an inherently more complex abstraction, posing new challenges to software engineering. Without adequate development te- niques and methods, MASs will not be sufficiently dependable, thus making their wide adoption by the industry more difficult. The dependability of a computing system is its ability to deliver a service that can be justifiably trusted. It is a singular time for dependable distributed systems, since the traditional models we use to express the relationships between a computational process and its environment are changing from the standard deterministic types into ones that are more distributed and dynamic. This served as a guiding principle for planning the Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2006) workshop, starting with selecting the theme, \"building dependable multi-agent systems.\" It acknowledges our belief in the increasingly vital role dependability plays as an essential element of MAS development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45281625014423,"sku":"9783540731306","price":3639.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783540731306.webp?v=1769299766","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/software-engineering-for-multi-agent-systems-v-research-issues-and-practical-applications-9783540731306","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}