Abstract

The community of agent researchers and engineers has produced a number of interesting and mature results. However, agent technology is still not widely adopted by industrial software developers or software companies. Yet, given that the software paradigms which are currently employed by the software industry, such as service-oriented architectures or cloud computing, have much in common with agent- oriented software engineering, industrial software projects could greatly benefit from agent technology. In this paper, we make an approach to analyse the requirements of current industry-driven software projects and show how we were able to cope with these requirements in the JIAC V agent framework. We argue that the lack of industry-grade requirements and features in other agent frameworks is one of the reasons for the slow acceptance of agent technology in the software industry. The JIAC V framework tries to bridge that gap – not as a final solution, but as a stepping stone towards industrial acceptance.

@INPROCEEDINGS{Lutzenberger2013Engineering,
  author = {Marco L"{u}tzenberger and Tobias K"{u}ster and Thomas Konnerth
	and Alexander Thiele and Nils Masuch and Axel Hess{}ler and Michael
	Burkhardt and Jakob Tonn and Silvan Kaiser and Jan Keiser.},
  title = {Engineering Industrial Multi-Agent Systems --- The {JIAC}~{V} Approach},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1textsuperscript{st} International Workshop on
	Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2013)},
  year = {2013},
  editor = {Massimo Cossentino and Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni and Michael Winikoff},
  pages = {160--175}
}