Selection Publications Before 2010

  2009

• B. Cheng, R. de Lemos, H. Giese, P. Inverardi, J. Magee, J. Andersson, B. Becker, N. Bencomo, Y. Brun, B. Cukic, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, S. Dustdar, A. Finkelstein, C. Gacek, K. Geihs, V. Grassi, G. Karsai, H. Kienle, J. Kramer, M. Litoiu, S. Malek, R. Mirandola, H. Muller, S. Park, M. Shaw, M. Tichy, M. Tivoli, D. Weyns and J. Whittle , Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems: A Research Roadmap, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5525, 2009 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, A Pattern Language for Multiagent Systems, Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture & European Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA/ECSA '09), Cambridge, UK, September 14-17, 2009 (PDF)
• T. Holvoet, D. Weyns, P. Valckenaers, Patterns for Delegate Multiagent Systems, 3th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO'09), San Francisco, California, September 14-18, 2009 (PDF)
• A. Helleboogh, D. Weyns, K. Schmid, T. Holvoet, K. Schelfthout, W. Van Betsbrugge, Adding Variants On-the-fly: Modeling Meta-Variability in Dynamic Software Product Lines, 3rd International Workshop on Dynamic Software Product Lines DSPL 2009 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, H.V.D. Parunak, O. Shehory, The Future of Software Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems, International Journal on Agent-Oriented Software Egninggering, IJAOSE, 3(4), 2009 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, A. Helleboogh, T. Holvoet, How to Get Multi-Agent Systems Accepted in Industry?, International Journal on Agent-Oriented Software Egninggering, IJAOSE, 3(4), 2009 (PDF)
• J. Andersson, R. de Lemos, S. Malek, D. Weyns, Reflecting on Self-Adaptive Software Systems, International ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-managing Systems, SEAMS 2009 (PDF)
• R. Haesevoets, D. Weyns, A. Helleboogh, T. Holvoet, and W. Joosen, Formal Model for Self-Adaptive and Self-Healing Organizations, International ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-managing Systems, SEAMS 2009 (PDF)
• J. Andersson, R. de Lemos, S. Malek, and D. Weyns, Modeling Dimensions of Self-Adaptive Software Systems, Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems, (B. H. C. Cheng, R. de Lemos, H. Giese, P. Inverardi, and J. Magee, eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5525, 2009 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, A. Helleboogh, T. Holvoet, M. Schumacher, The Agent Environment in Multi-Agent Systems: A Middleware Perspective, Special Issue on Engineering Agent Environments for Multiagent Systems, International Journal on Multiagent and Grid Systems, 5(1), 2009 (PDF)

  2008

• D. Weyns, A. Helleboogh, T. Holvoet, K. Schelfthout, and W. Wim Van Betsbrugge, Towards a Software Product Line for Automated Transportation Systems, Proceedings of the 2nd International SPLC Workshop on Dynamic Software Product Lines, DSPL 2008 (PDF)
• A. Helleboogh, D. Weyns, T. Holvoet, On the Role of Software Architecture for Simulating Multi-Agent Systems, Multi-Agent Systems, Simulation, and Applications, Taylor and Francis, 2009 (in press) (PDF)
• A. Helleboogh, D. Weyns, T. Holvoet, and N. Boucke, On ADLs and tool support for documenting view-based architectural descriptions, Fourth SEI Software Architecture Technlogy User Network Workshop, SATURN 2008 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, Mediating Agents' Activities in Situated Multiagent Systems, Ubiquitous Computing and Communication Journal, Special Issue on Coordination in Pervasive Environments, 2008 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, T. Holvoet, K. Schelfthout, J. Wielemans, Decentralized Control of Automatic Guided Vehicles: Applying Multi-Agent Systems in Practice, Development Track OOPSLA, Companion ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Nashville, USA, 2008 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, N. Boucke, and T. Holvoet, A Field-Based Versus a Protocol-Based Approach for Adaptive Task Assignment, Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 17(2), pp. 288-319, 2008 (PDF)
• N. Boucke, D. Weyns, R. Hilliard, T. Holvoet, and A. Helleboogh, Characterizing Relations between Architectural Views, Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2008 (PDF)
• D. Weyns and T. Holvoet, Architectural design of a situated multiagent system for controlling automatic guided vehicles, International Journal on Agent Oriented Software Engineering 2(1), Special Issue on Multi-Agent Systems and Software Architecture (PDF)
• D. Weyns, R. Haesevoets, B. Van Eylen, T. Holvoet, and W. Joosen, Endogenous versus Exogenous Self-Management, International ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-managing Systems, SEAMS 2008 (PDF)

  2007

• R. Haesevoets, B. Van Eylen, D. Weyns, A. Helleboogh, T. Holvoet, W. Joosen, Coordinated Monitoring of Traffic Jams with Context-Driven Dynamic Organizations, International Conference on Engineering Environment-Mediated Multiagent Systems, Dresden 2007 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, N. Boucke, and T. Holvoet, DynCNET: A Protocol for Flexible Task Assignment in Situated Multiagent Systems, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2007 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, An Architectural Strategy for Self-Adapting Systems, Proceedings of the International ICSE Workshop on Software engineering for Adaptive and Self-managing Systems, SEAMS 2007 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, Laws for Mediating Agents' Activities in Situated Multiagent Systems, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises, Interdisciplinary Aspects of Coordination Applied to Pervasive Environments: Models and Applications, CoMA 2007 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, Architecture-centric software development of situated multiagent systems, Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (Dikenelli, O. and Gleizes, M.P. and Ricci, A., eds.), vol 4408, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 62-85, 2007 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, A framework for situated multiagent systems, Software Engineering for Large Scale Systems V, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (Choren, R., Garcia, A., Giese, H., Leung, H., Lucena, C., and Romanovsky, A., eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 204-231, 2007 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, A. Omicini, and J. Odell, Environment as a first-class abstraction in multiagent systems, International Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 14 (1), pp. 5-30, 2007 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, T. Holvoet, and A. Helleboogh, Anticipatory Vehicle Routing using Delegate Multi-Agent Systems, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Seattle 2007 (PDF)
• V. Parunak, S. Brueckner, D. Weyns, T. Holvoet, P. Verstraete, P. Valckenaers, E Pluribus Unum: Polyagent and Delegate MAS Architectures, Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2007 (PDF)

  2006

• D. Weyns, T. Holvoet, and K. Schelfthout, Multiagent systems as software architecture: another perspective on software engineering with multiagent systems, Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Stone, P. and Weiss, G., eds.), pp. 1314-1317, 2006 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, Architectural design of an automatic guided vehicle transportation system with a multiagent system approach, Proceedings of the Second Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop (Nord, D., ed.), CMU/SEI-2006-TR-010, ESC-TR-2006-010, pp. 27-29, 2006 (PDF)
• N. Boucké, D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, Experiences with Theme/UML for architectural design of a multiagent system, Multiagent Systems and Software Architecture, Proceedings of the Special Track at Net.ObjectDays 2006 (Weyns, D. and Holvoet, T., eds.), pp. 87-110, 2006 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, N. Boucke, and T. Holvoet, Gradient field-based task assignment in an AGV transportation system, Proceedings of Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 842-849, 2006 (PDF)
• K. Schelfthout, D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, Middleware for protocol-based coordination in mobile applications, IEEE Distributed Systems Online 7 (8), pp. 1-18, August, 2006 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, A reference architecture for situated multiagent systems, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Environments for Multiagent Systems, vol 4389, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 120-170, 2006 (PDF)
• N. Boucke, D. Weyns, K. Schelfthout, and T. Holvoet, Applying the ATAM to an architecture for decentralized control of a transportation system, Second International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures, vol 4214, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 180-198, 2006 (PDF)

  2005

• D. Weyns, M. Schumacher, A. Ricci, M. Viroli, and T. Holvoet, Environments in multiagent systems, The Knowledge Engineering Review 20 (2), pp. 127-141, June, 2005 (KER website)
• D. Weyns, G. Vizzari, and T. Holvoet, Environments for situated multiagent systems: Beyond infrastructure, Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II (Weyns, D. and Parunak, V. and Michel, F., eds.), vol 3830, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 1-17, 2006 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, K. Schelfthout, and T. Holvoet, Exploiting a virtual environment in a real-world application, Environments for Multiagent Systems II (Weyns, D. and Parunak, V. and Michel, F., eds.), vol 3830, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 218-234, 2006 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, K. Schelfthout, T. Holvoet, T. Lefever, and J. Wielemans, Architecture-centric development of an AGV transportation system, Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV (Pechoucek, M. and Petta, P. and Varga, L.Z., eds.), vol 3690, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 640-645, 2005 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, From reactive robotics to situated multiagent systems: A historical perspective on the role of environment in multiagent systems, Engineering Societies in the Agents World VI, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (Dikenelli, O. and Gleizes, M.P. and Ricci, A., eds.), vol 3963, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 63-88, 2006 (PDF)
• A. Helleboogh, T. Holvoet, D. Weyns, and Y. Berbers, Extending time management support for multi-agent systems, Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation: Joint Workshop MABS 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Davidsson, P. and Logan, B. and Takadama, K., eds.), vol 3415, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 37-48, 2005 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, K. Schelfthout, and T. Holvoet, Architectural design of a distributed application with autonomic quality requirements, Proceedings Design and Evolution of Autonomic application Software (Garlan, D. and Litoui, M. and Müller, H. and Mylopoulos, J. and Smith, D. and Wong, K., eds.), pp. 52-59, 2005 (PDF)
• K. Schelfthout, D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, Middleware for protocol-based coordination in dynamic networks, Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Middleware for pervasive and ad-hoc computing (Terzis, S. and Donsez, D., eds.), pp. 1-8, 2005 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, E. Truyen, and P. Verbaeten, Serialization of Distributed Threads in Java, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience 6 (1), pp. 81-98, July, 2005 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, K. Schelfthout, T. Holvoet, and T. Lefever, Decentralized control of E'GV transportation systems, Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Industry Track, pp. 67-74, 2005 (PDF)
• E. Steegmans, D. Weyns, T. Holvoet, and Y. Berbers, A design process for adaptive behavior of situated agents, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering V, vol 3382, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 109-125, 2005 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, A. Helleboogh, and T. Holvoet, The Packet-World: A testbed for investigating situated multiagent systems, Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms, and Development Kits, Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies, 2005 (PDF)

  2004

• D. Weyns, H. Parunak, F. Michel, T. Holvoet, and J. Ferber, Environments for multi-agent systems, state-of-the-art and research challenges, Environments for multi-agent systems (Weyns, D. and Parunak, H.V.D. and Michel, F., eds.), vol 3374, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 1-48, 2005 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, A formal model for situated multi-agent systems, Fundamenta Informaticae 63 (2-3), pp. 125-158, November, 2004 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, A colored Petri net for regional synchronization in situated multiagent systems, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Coordination and Petri Nets (Ciancarini, P. and Bocchi, L., eds.), pp. 65-86, 2004 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, E. Steegmans, and T. Holvoet, Towards active perception in situated multi-agent systems, Applied Artificial Intelligence, vol.18, nb. 9-10, pp. 867-883, 2004 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, A. Helleboogh, E. Steegmans, T. De Wolf, K. Mertens, N. Boucké, and T. Holvoet, Agents are not part of the problem, agents can solve the problem, Proceedings of the OOPSLA Workshop on Agent-Oriented Methodologies, 2004 (Gonzales-Perez, C., ed.), pp. 101-112, 2004 (PDF)
• E. Steegmans, D. Weyns, T. Holvoet, and Y. Berbers, A design process for adaptive behavior of situated agents, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering V (Odell, J. and Giorgini, P. and Müller, J.P., eds.), vol 3382, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 109-125, 2005 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, E. Steegmans, and T. Holvoet, Protocol based communication for situated multi-agent systems, Proceedings of The Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (Jennings, N. and Sierra, C. and Sonenberg, L. and Tambe, M., eds.), pp. 118-126, 2004 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, K. Schelfthout, T. Holvoet, and O. Glorieux, Towards adaptive role selection for behavior-based agents, Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems III: Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning (Kudenko, D. and Kazakov, D. and Alonso, E., eds.), vol 3394, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 295-314, 2005 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, E. Steegmans, and T. Holvoet, Integrating free-flow architectures with role models based on statecharts, Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III: Research Issues and Practical Applications (Choren, R. and Garcia, A. and Lucena, C. et al., eds.), vol 3390, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 104-120, 2005 (PDF)

  2003

• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, Regional synchronization for simultaneous actions in situated multi-agent systems, Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III (Marik, V. and Müller, J. and Pechoucek, M., eds.), vol LNAI 2691, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 497-511, 2003 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, E. Truyen, and P. Verbaeten, Serialization of distributed execution-state in Java, Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a Networked World (Aksit, M. and Mezini, M. and Unland, R., eds.), vol 2591, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 41-61, 2003 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, Model for simultaneous actions in situated multi-agent systems, Multiagent System Technologies (Schillo, M. and Klusch, M. and Muller, J. and Tianfield, H., eds.), vol 2831, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 105-119, 2003 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, Synchronous versus asynchronous collaboration in situated multi-agent systems, Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Rosenschein, J. and Sandholm, T. and Wooldridge, M. and Yokoo, M., eds.), pp. 1156-1158, 2003 (PDF)

  2002

• D. Weyns, and T. Holvoet, A colored Petri-net for a multi-agent application, Proceedings of Modeling Object, Components and Agents, MOCA'02 (Moldt, D., ed.), vol 561, DAIMI PB, pp. 121-141, 2002 (PDF)
• D. Weyns, E. Truyen, and P. Verbaeten, Distributed Threads in Java, Informatica (Grigoras, D., ed.), pp. 94-109, 2002 (PDF)