| S. C. Laufmann. Towards agent--based software engineering for information-- dependent enterprise applications. In IEE Proceedings of Software Engineering |
....Engineering. In that paper the construction of a MAS is seen as a software engineering enterprise: issues concerning specification, implementation and verification of MAS are presented, focusing on a number of case studies. In the same journal [Iee97] two other interesting papers are presented: Lau97] presents two case studies (kiosks for telephone sales and support and information access for service technicians) to which agent modellization has been applied to integrate legacy systems into information dependent applications; instead, BHM97] presents a study on how agent based technology ....
S. C. Laufmann. Towards agent--based software engineering for information-- dependent enterprise applications. In IEE Proceedings of Software Engineering
....Wooldridge tries to face agent based software engineering from a formal point of view, but he leaves many issues unsolved. For example, he does not say anything about integration of legacy software, nor about guidelines or methodologies for developing agent based software. About integration, Lau97] presents two case studies (kiosks for telephone sales and support and information access for service technicians) in which agent technology has been used. These two applications are representative of the large class of distributed information dependent applications. The paper addresses the ....
S. C. Laufmann. Towards agent--based software engineering for information-- dependent enterprise applications. In IEE Proceedings of Software Engineering
....communication and coordination Figure 2a. Agents with emphasis on the task knowledge and behavior. tend to focus more on how it is done than on a specific application (section 2. 2) And work motivated by interoperability problems in distributed and heterogeneous computing environments, as in [25], will tend to focus on the communication and coordination aspects of the problem (section 2.3) 2.1. Agents as Automated Personal Assistants The notion of agents is often associated with that of automated personal assistants. As such, the agents perform some kind of task(s) for a person. This ....
....23] In addition, we are re hosting a legacy system from a mainframe to multiple, distributed platforms and constructing servers for consumer level kiosks to deploy sales tools in remote locations, both based on the CGA approach. A recent article describes these applications in greater detail [25]. These and other related experiences have realized implementational efficiencies in two important ways. First, the time required to distribute an implemented functionality was substantially reduced. Second, the intuitive coordination model and the well defined interfaces imposed by the model ....
Laufmann, S. C. 1996. "Toward Agent-Based Software Engineering for Information-Dependent Enterprise Applications". Journal of Software Engineering. In Press.
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