[agents] IJAOSE seeking submissions

[Michael Winikoff]

Dear colleagues,

The International Journal of Agent Oriented Software Engineering is
seeking submissions.

Papers should be previously unpublished, and relate to some aspect of
the engineering of agents and MAS.

For further information see below, or:
https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijaose

Best wishes,

Michael Winikoff (editor-in-chief IJAOSE)

Description:

The field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (MAS) offers
approaches for solving a wide range of problems where distribution,
robustness and adaptability are challenges. IJAOSE fosters discussion
on all aspects of the engineering of agents and MAS. This includes
work that strengthens links with related research fields and
communities, such as business process modelling, service oriented
computing, information systems, requirements engineering, mainstream
software engineering, autonomic computing, self-organising systems and
pervasive/ubiquitous computing.

Objectives
The objectives of IJAOSE are to establish a communication vehicle for
researchers and practitioners to promote, publicise and exchange ideas
relating to the interface between research and commercial adoption of
agent technology within the software development community. A further
objective is to bring together the two relevant communities of agent
technologists and (traditional) software engineers. Although software
engineering necessarily encompasses research and application, an
individual paper in IJAOSE may address one or both of these aspects.
If a proposal is purely theoretical, some application areas need to be
indicated although empirical proof will not necessarily be required
for publication in the journal.

Topics covered include

Software engineering methodologies for agents, MAS and agreement technologies
Modelling languages and techniques
Declarative technologies and techniques for the engineering of MAS
Programming languages, frameworks, architectures, models,
infrastructure for agents and MAS
Techniques for specification and verification of MAS
Pragmatic issues in MAS adoption
  performance, load balancing, scalability
  testing and fault-tolerance
  interoperability and standardisation
  integration with mainstream technologies/legacy systems
Applications of agents and MAS and adoption experiences
Evaluations of agent technology, including empirical studies,
systematic literature reviews
Tools and environments
Benchmarking and testbeds