Zambonelli, Franco; Van Dyke Parunak, H. Signs of a revolution in computer science and software engineering. (English) Zbl 1022.68731 Petta, Paolo (ed.) et al., Engineering societies in the agents world III. Third international workshop, ESAW 2002, Madrid, Spain, September 16-17, 2002. Revised papers. Berlin: Springer. Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2577, 13-28 (2003). Summary: Several characteristics distinguish today’s complex software systems from ”traditional” ones. Examples in different areas show that these characteristics, already the focus of agent-oriented software engineering research, influence many application domains. These characteristics will impact how software systems are modeled and engineered. We are on the edge of a revolutionary shift of paradigm, pioneered by the multi-agent systems community, and likely to change our very attitudes in software systems modeling and engineering.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1013.68964]. MSC: 68U99 Computing methodologies and applications 68T01 General topics in artificial intelligence 68N99 Theory of software PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{F. Zambonelli} and \textit{H. Van Dyke Parunak}, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2577, 13--28 (2003; Zbl 1022.68731) Full Text: Link