Agent-Oriented
Software Engineering (AOSE)
Jennings & Woolridge 99
Abstraction
Organization
Principle of
emergent behavior
reduces programing complexity.
But in fact we know little about how to guarantee emergent
behavior.
Swarm Intelligence is good for
optimization problems but little else.
But simple "software ants"
can offer features such as graceful
dgradation, often touted as a feature
of "intelligent agens".
Moreover, methodologies assoiciated with
UML seem to have more impact on AOSE
than the other way round.
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