Endorsements and Reviews
"Agents are being used as the building blocks not only for complex systems requiring distributed intelligence, but also for conventional software systems. This book will teach students and practitioners how to use agents as a basis for modeling and then implementing such systems. It will be a required textbook for my students learning about multiagent systems, services, and large-scale simulations."
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Michael Huhns, Director, Center for Information Technology,
Chair, Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina |
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"In The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling readers will find an answer: a thorough description of all the ideas behind agent- oriented software engineering and a new approach to modeling that can fit many different methodologies. A student or a professional will be guided, with a maieutic approach, to learn the art of modeling through many complete examples. Far from being a painful set of definitions and procedures, it will be a pleasure to read it." |
Maurizio Martelli, Università di Genova |
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"The fast pace and increasing complexity of the technological age demand that computer scientists develop new ways of creating software. The concept of "software agents," as small intelligent entities to help create this software, has entered the software engineering process. Sterling and Taveter have extended the definition of "agent" to include people, devices, software, networks, etc., to view the development from a systems perspective and visualize how all of it will fit together. Using plenty of examples and illustrations, this well-written book will help readers understand how to model such systems and software. Topics include agent concepts; various models; embedding quality in the system; different development platforms, methodologies, and programming languages; industry applications; home applications; and e-learning applications. Development platforms are compared with modeling examples in four different programming languages. One weakness is that only four of the ten chapters include exercises, requiring instructors to develop their own problems if they want to use this as a textbook. This work is a valuable reference for this important new agent modeling development technique. Good index, list of references, acronym list, and glossary. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; two-year technical program students." |
H. J. Bender, independent scholar (CHOICE, February 2010) |
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