Quality Assurance of Agent-Based and Self-Managed Systems

by Reiner Dumke, Steffen Mencke, Cornelius Wille

Overview

The challenges in implementing intelligent and autonomous software systems remain the development of self-adapting systems, self-healing applications, corporate global creation, and collaborated robotic teams. With software agent technology widely recognized as a key approach in implementing such global infrastructure, the importance of the role of

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040170380
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	08/26/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface. Software Agent Technology. Software Quality Assurance. Agent Quality Measurement and Evaluation. Quality Measurement of Agent Systems. Quality-Based Development of Agent Systems. Conclusions. Index.