Bradshaw. J. M. (ed.). Software Agents. Cambridge MA: AAAI Press/MIT Press,1997.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

.... program that can perform specific tasks for a user and possesses a degree of intelligence that permits it to perform part of its task autonomously and to interact with its environment in a useful manner [Brenner 98] A number of survey books and articles on the subject of agent based systems [Bradshaw 97, Brenner 98, IAG 97, Hayden 99, Nwana 96] outline a set of typical design patterns for collaboration among agents, but they do not delve into the critical aspects of evaluating agent based systems in terms of software quality attributes. We see the following set of attributes as particularly ....

....is inevitable because of unavoidable overlaps and subtle distinctions. These taxonomies might serve marketing needs but do not help developers or users in evaluating quality attributes such as security, availability, or performance. Additional taxonomies are cited in the introductory chapter of [Bradshaw 97] but we do not need to belabor the point. Instead of attempting to conduct attribute tradeoffs based on ever changing taxonomies of styles, we take a different approach: First, we do not look at the functionality of the agents in the system, rather we concentrate on external properties such as ....

Bradshaw. J. M. (ed.). Software Agents. Cambridge MA: AAAI Press/MIT Press,1997.

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