Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems. Research issues and practical applications (Q1397119)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Silva, Viviane; Garcia, Alessandro; Brandão, Anarosa; Chavez, Christina; Lucena, Carlos; Alencar, Paulo S. C.}, Taming agents and objects in software engineering, 1-26 [Zbl 1019.68764] \textit{Odell, James J.; Van Dyke Parunak, H.; Fleischer, Mitchell}, The role of roles in designing effective agent organizations, 27-38 [Zbl 1019.68740] \textit{Cysneiros, Luiz Marcio; Yu, Eric}, Requirements engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems, 39-56 [Zbl 1019.68665] \textit{Castro, Jaelson; Pinto, Rosa; Castor, Andréa; Mylopoulos, John}, Requirements traceability in agent oriented development, 57-72 [Zbl 1019.68658] \textit{Silva, Otavio; Garcia, Alessandro; Lucena, Carlos}, The reflective blackboard pattern: Architecting large multi-agent systems, 73-93 [Zbl 1019.68763] \textit{Roman, Gruia-Catalin; Julien, Christine; Murphy, Amy L.}, A declarative approach to agent-centered context-aware computing in ad hoc wireless environments, 94-109 [Zbl 1019.68757] \textit{Mamei, Marco; Mahan, Michael}, Engineering mobility in large multi agent systems: A case study in urban traffic management, 110-122 [Zbl 1019.68728] \textit{Gustavsson, Rune; Fredriksson, Martin}, Sustainable information ecosystems, 123-138 [Zbl 1019.68690] \textit{Griss, Martin L.; Kessler, Robert R.}, Achieving the promise of reuse with agent components, 139-147 [Zbl 1019.68688] \textit{Holvoet, Tom; Steegmans, Elke}, Application-specific reuse of agent roles, 148-164 [Zbl 1019.68698] \textit{Díaz Pace, J. Andrés; Trilnik, Federico U.; Campo, Marcelo R.}, Assisting the development of aspect-based multi-agent systems using the smartweaver approach, 165-181 [Zbl 1019.68671] \textit{Guessoum, Zahia; Briot, Jean-Pierre; Marin, Olivier; Hamel, Athmane; Sens, Pierre}, Dynamic and adaptive replication for large-scale reliable multi-agent systems, 182-198 [Zbl 1019.68689] \textit{Huhns, Michael N.; Holderfield, Vance T.; Zavala Gutierrez, Rosa Laura}, Achieving software robustness via large-scale multiagent systems, 199-215 [Zbl 1019.68700] \textit{Zambonelli, Franco; Mamei, Marco; Roli, Andrea}, What can cellular automata tell us about the behavior of large multi-agent systems?, 216-231 [Zbl 1019.68794] \textit{Sycara, Katia; Giampapa, Joseph A.; Langley, Brent; Paolucci, Massimo}, The RETSINA MAS, a case study, 232-250 [Zbl 1019.68771] \textit{Tripathi, Anand R.; Koka, Muralidhar; Karanth, Sandeep; Pathak, Abhijit; Ahmed, Tanvir}, Secure multi-agent coordination in a network monitoring system, 251-266 [Zbl 1019.68777] \textit{Alencar, Paulo S. C.; Cowan, D. D.; Mulholland, D.; Oliveira, T.}, Towards monitored data consistency and business processing based on declarative software agents, 267-284 [Zbl 1019.68641]