Crossing the agent technology chasm: Lessons, experiences and challenges in commercial applications of agents

Munroe, Steve; Miller, Tim; Belecheanu, Roxana; Pěchouček, Michal; McBurney, Peter; Lück, Michael

doi:10.1017/s0269888906001020

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“…With the agent paradigm increasingly becoming a popular and successful way for modelling complex systems (Munroe et al, 2006), methodologies for agent-oriented software engineering have become an important research field. Several such methodologies have been proposed, such as Tropos (Bresciani et al, 2004), Prometheus (Padgham and Winikoff, 2004), Gaia (Zambonelli et al, 2003), INGENIAS (Pavón and Gómez-Sanz, 2003), and ROADMAP (Juan et al, 2002).…”

Section: Agent-oriented Modellingmentioning

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Understanding socially oriented roles and goals through motivational modelling

Miller¹,

Pedell²,

Sterling³

et al. 2012

Journal of Systems and Software

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Abstract-Technology has the potential to transform our home life, but only if it addresses the needs of its users. Understanding and modelling social needs is a challenge. For example, how do we understand, model, and then evaluate a system that must support needs such as "being fun"? In this paper, we define a systematic and repeatable process and method for understanding the roles and goals within a social domain for the purpose of informing technology design. We use the case study of building technology that supports meaningful interactions between grandparents and grandchildren separated by distance. Rather than attempt to define the roles of grandparents and grandchildren, and their associated goals, we study the roles and goals of activities in which grandparents and grandchildren typically engage, such as story telling and gifting, and define role and goals models from the resulting data. The data obtained from the study of these activities provides a form of validation of the models. From these, we gain a better understanding of this complex social relationship, and how software systems can be built to support it. The models that emerge during the process are useful boundary objects, allowing knowledge to be shared across and between the disparate stakeholder communities, including end users, software engineers, and field researchers, and serve as inputs to the design process.

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Section: Agent-oriented Modellingmentioning

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Understanding socially oriented roles and goals through motivational modelling

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Pedell²,

Sterling³

et al. 2012

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“…Indeed industrial practitioners are often scared by the thought of an agent autonomously learning and changing behaviours (Munroe, et al, 2006).…”

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Adaptivity: A Quality Goal for Agent-Oriented Models?

Sterling

2011

IFAC Proceedings Volumes

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If software systems are to behave more intelligently, they will need to be able to adapt to the changing external world. The agent-oriented paradigm offers the potential to build adaptive systems. This paper explores the nature of adaptivity in multi-agent systems by exploring how to represent adaptivity in agent-oriented models. Rather than focussing on mechanisms for individual agents to be highly adaptive, we advocate regarding adaptivity as a quality goal of an overall multi-agent system. Discussing agentoriented models should help guide where design tradeoffs need to be made. Learning can be approached in a similar way to adaptivity, where learning is viewed as an attribute of the system rather than a fundamental property of individual agents. Examples are given from use of automated teller machines at mobile sites and intelligent information agents.

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“…This approach has attracted an increasing amount of interest from the research community and has demonstrated its potential in many fields, such as: (i) working with different types of distributed devices (e.g., sensor networks, mobile phones, and personal computers), (ii) enabling various types of communication and data exchange (e.g., audio and video), and (iii) ability to dynamically adapt to the ever changing requirements and dynamic operating environment (Munroe et al, 2006), (Pěchouček and Mařík, 2008), (Dam and Winikoff, 2013).…”

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An Evaluation of the Challenges of Multilingualism in Data Warehouse Development

Dediź

Stanier

2016

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

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ICEIS 2016 received 257 paper submissions from 42 countries in all continents, which makes it one of the largest conferences in the World in the area of Information Systems, thus demonstrating the success and global dimension of this conference. From these, 42 papers were selected for publication and presentation at the Conference as full papers. These numbers, leading to a full-paper acceptance ratio of 16%, show the intention of preserving a high quality forum for this conference, a quality that we intend to maintain in the future, for the next editions of this conference.The high number and high quality of the received papers imposed difficult choices in the selection process. To evaluate each submission, a double blind paper review was performed by the Program Committee, whose members are highly qualified researchers in ICEIS topic areas.All presented papers will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library and will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.Additionally, a short list of presented papers will be selected to be expanded into a forthcoming book of ICEIS 2016 Selected Papers to be published by Springer in the LNBIP Series.The technical program of the conference included a panel and 4 invited talks delivered by internationally distinguished speakers, namely: Claudia Loebbecke (University of Cologne, Germany), Sergio Gusmeroli (TXT e-solutions SPA, Italy), Wil Van Der Aalst (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Jan Vom Brocke (University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein). Their participation positively contributes to reinforce the overall quality of the Conference and to provide a deeper understanding of the fields addressed by the conference.Moreover, ICEIS 2016 had a Doctoral Consortium on Enterprise Information Systems and 1 tutorial. We are thankful to the Conference Co-chairs (Olivier Camp and José Cordeiro) and Program Co-chairs (Slimane Hammoudi, Leszek Maciaszek and Michele M. Missikoff) for their dedication and hard work in organizing these events.We sincerely thank all the authors for their submissions and participation in ICEIS 2016. Furthermore, we would like to thank all the members of the program committee and reviewers, who helped us with their expertise, dedication and time. We would also like to thank the invited speakers for their excellent contribution in sharing their knowledge and vision and the workshop/special session chairs whose collaboration with ICEIS 2015 was much appreciated. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the professional support of the ICEIS 2016 team for all organizational processes. XIIIWe hope that all colleagues find this a fruitful and inspiring conference. We hope to contribute to the development of the Enterprise Information Systems community and look forward to having additional research results presented at the next edition of ICEIS, details of which are available at http://www.iceis.org. Slimane Hammoudi University of Cologne, GermanyAbstract:...

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Crossing the agent technology chasm: Lessons, experiences and challenges in commercial applications of agents

Cited by 55 publications

References 14 publications

Understanding socially oriented roles and goals through motivational modelling

Understanding socially oriented roles and goals through motivational modelling

Adaptivity: A Quality Goal for Agent-Oriented Models?

An Evaluation of the Challenges of Multilingualism in Data Warehouse Development

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