1st Edition
Quality Assurance of Agent-Based and Self-Managed Systems
Software Agent Technology
Why Agent-Based Systems?
Basic Definitions
Agent Properties
Classification of Agents
Basic Agent Architectures
Multi-Agent Systems
Agent Interaction
Software Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance Basics
Quality Measurement and Evaluation
Quality Assurance of Agent-Based Systems
Agent Quality Measurement and Evaluation
Introduction
Review of Agent Measurement Examples
Discussion
Quality Measurement of Agent Systems
Introduction
Quality Measurement Approaches of MAS
Quality Measurement Examples of MAS Development
Measurement Evaluation of MAS Development Resources
Discussion
Conclusions
Summary and Current Situation
Open Questions and Future Directions
Bibliography
Agent Measurement Author List
Biography
Reiner R. Dumke is currently working at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany, as a professor with software engineering as research field. He is one of the founders of the Software Measurement Laboratory (SML@b) of the computer science department at the University of Magdeburg and co-editor of the Measurement News Journal.
Steffen Mencke holds a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (2005) and a Ph.D. degree from the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany. The German state of Saxony-Anhalt awarded him a scholarship to work on his Ph.D. thesis about "Proactive Ontology-Based Content Provision in the Context of e-Learning", which he successfully defended in 2008. His research interest covers the Semantic Web, Agent Technology, e-Learning and Software Engineering.
Cornelius Wille teaches in software engineering as a professor at the University of Applied Sciences Bingen, Germany.
