面向Agent软件工程:现状、挑战与展望

面向Agent软件工程是近年出现的一种新颖软件开发范型,它借助于Agent技术来支持软件系统的工程化开发,被视为是支持复杂软件系统开发的一种重要方法和手段,受到了学术界和工业界的高度关注和重视。尽管在过去十年多的时间里面向Agent软件工程的研究取得了诸多进展,但其技术潜力尚有待进一步发挥,走向大规模工业化应用仍面临诸多问题和挑战。在分析面向Agent软件工程产生背景和技术特点的基础上,从方法、过程和工具三个不同的角度,综述了面向Agent软件工程的研究现状,识别和分析了它当前所面临的一组关键挑战,展望和讨论了其未来的研究方向。     

Software Quality Perspectives

Abstract

Software Quality have multidimensional perspectives. Information Security, Reliability are the Integral Characteristics of it. Audit, Inspection & Testing are the methodological process to reach this goal. The meaning of Software Quality cannot be completed without including Security, Reliability, Inspection and Audit. That is the ultimate perspective of this article. This article defines the meaning and Characteristics of Software Quality and its scope and integral relationship with other entities as it is pre-requisite Quality Assurance. This article also identifies the methodological and procedural perspectives of Software Quality Assurance. Discussing a parallel evaluation on Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).

COBIT is designed to meet multiple requirements it allows an organization to assess the business risks and assign control objectives to a common set of IT functions. And CMMI has defined the quality and process.

As integral part of Software Quality Assurance, this article also briefly discusses important parts of Testing, different type and level of testing what to be tested and what not to be tested. Different types of Reviews, Audit, Incident management, Defect management, Risk vulnerability and Threat Management, and Information Security issues.     

Software Engineering

The state of software engineering is diverse, disorderly, and expanding, Coined less than seven years ago, the term is used today to describe such disparate activities as programming methodology, software development, and programming tools and standards. But for all the confusion surrounding it, this new discipline does seem to promise solutions to some of the most vexing problems of modern software development efforts: reliability and complexity. Clearly, the subject deserves to be explored.     

Software, Software Engineering and Software Engineering Research: Some Unconventional Thoughts

Software engineering is broadly discussed as falling far short of expectations. Data and examples are used to justify how software itself is often poor, how the engineering of software leaves much to be desired, and how research in software engineering has not made enough progress to help overcome these weaknesses. However, these data and examples are presented and interpreted in ways that are arguably imbalanced. This imbalance, usually taken at face value, may be distracting the field from making significant progress towards improving the effective engineering of software, a goal the entire community shares. Research dichotomies, which tend to pit one approach against another, often subtly hint that there is a best way to engineer software or a best way to perform research on software. This, too, may be distracting the field from important classes of progress.     

软件体系结构与组件软件工程

介绍了组件类型和体系结构的概念。在ＡＣＡ和ＮＣＡ之间作了比较，基于构件的软件工程给软件开发带来的变化。     

Frame-Based Software Engineering

One of reusability's main problems is how to easily modify available components. This frame-based approach handles the problem.     

离岸外包开发中的软件工程

主要研究在离岸软件外包项目中,领域驱动开发在实际项目应用中的方式和方法.特别针对作者从事的离岸外包的金融投资交易系统的开发和维护.离岸软件外包在实际进展环节中,项目知识积累和控制人员流动对项目的影响是主要应对其项目风险的主要方法.领域驱动的设计与开发实践可以很好地解决上述问题.提出了具有实践意义的一些解决方法.     

Cleanroom Software Engineering

Software quality can be engineered under statistical quality control and delivered with better quality. The Cleanroom process gives management an engineering approach to release reliable products.     

面向Agent的软件工程

本文讨论了Agent以及面向Agent的软件工程技术，指出面向Agent的软件工程技术将是一种分析，设计和构造软件系统的得力手段。     

Software Engineering Economics

This paper summarizes the current state of the art and recent trends in software engineering economics. It provides an overview of economic analysis techniques and their applicability to software engineering and management. It surveys the field of software cost estimation, including the major estimation techniques available, the state of the art in algorithmic cost models, and the outstanding research issues in software cost estimation.     

面向Agent的软件工程

Agent技术在计算机系统的建模、设计和实现等方面有巨大的潜力,它带来的大量的新的理论与方法将大大推动软件工程领域研究的进程。文章讨论了Agent技术在计算机软件系统开发方面的优势以及存在的一些问题。     

面向agent软件工程

1 引言面对复杂分布软件系统的开发,现有软件工程技术常遇到困难。面向agent技术为这类系统的理解、建模、开发提供了一种很自然的方法,较现有其它软件技术更适合于解决这类复杂的现实问题,是面向对象、构件、软件体系结构等软件工程思想的一种自然进步,被认为是网络时代计算机系统的基础。 Oren Etzioni认为:“对于智能agent,99％属于计算机科学,而1％属于人工智能”。面向agent软件工程方法是面向agent系统开发引入软件产业的关键因素,现有软件开发技术不能直接用于面向agent的软件开发,除了基本概念不同外,更重要的是现有方法不足以描述agent灵活性、自主问题求