An Integrated Development Environment for Electronic Institutions [chapter]

Josep Lluís Arcos, Marc Esteva, Pablo Noriega, Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra
Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies  
There is an increasing need of methodologies and software tools that ease the development of applications where distributed heterogeneous entities can participate. Multi-agent systems, and electronic institutions in particular, can play a main role on the development of this type of systems. Electronic institutions define the rules of the game in agent societies, by fixing what agents are permitted and forbidden to do and under what circumstances. The goal of this paper is to introduce an
more » ... ated development environment that supports the engineering of electronic institutions.
doi:10.1007/3-7643-7348-2_6 fatcat:kakaujwutnavvozw4e2r6mljpy