Towards Engineering of Agent-Based System

Software agent technology promises an exciting new means of analyzing, designing and building complex software systems. Agent-oriented approach has the potential to significantly improve the current practices in software engineering to tackle complexity. Consequently, agent-based systems have been making inroads into practical deployments gradually after several decades of active research. However, industrialization of agent technology and agent-based systems requires agent-oriented methodologies to aid analysis and design of high quality software; agent development platforms to implement software; and standardization of the technology to facilitate adoption and interoperation between agent-based systems. Towards this end, the paper provides a review of these critical aspects and presents the state-of-the-art development thereof