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....adopted as the target language for implementing the library, according to the constraints imposed by an ongoing project, and for the sake of rapid prototyping. 1. Introduction In the last few years, agents have been proposed as a new promising and pervasive technology (see, for example, 1] [2], 3] 4] Interactions among agents typically are performed according to standardized protocols, which allow them to communicate, collaborate and negotiate within a common environment. Moreover, from a software engineering perspective, agents could be seen as a further improvement in software ....

N. R. Jennings and M. Wooldridge, "Applying agent technology", Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 9(4), pp. 351361, 1995.

.... Introduction The impact of agent software technology in software development represents one of the most important breakthought, as illustrated by recent studies [16] In the following Figure 1 we illustrate the impact of this novel software technology with respect to different application fields [10]. In the agent based approach the knowledge and duties are distributed over populations of computational agents. To reach global solutions specific cooperation schemes are formulated and implemented in order to allow the agents to execute autonomously and independently their goals [5] In ....

N. R. Jennings, M. Wooldridge. Applying Agent Technology. IJCAI-95, Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, Montreal, Quebec, August 1995.

.... in the scientific community, and the introduction of terms such as Agent Based Software Engineering (Wooldridge Fisher, 1994) and Multi Agent Systems engineering (Muller, 1992) there has been little work in defining a methodology for designing agents and agent based systems as mentioned in (Jennings, 1995; Jennings Wooldridge, 1995; Muller, 1992) A first approach for the definition of a general methodology for multiagent systems (MAS) is here presented, which has been developed because of the need to apply a multiagent platform to different applications. 2 The MAS CommonKADS approach The ....

.... community, and the introduction of terms such as Agent Based Software Engineering (Wooldridge Fisher, 1994) and Multi Agent Systems engineering (Muller, 1992) there has been little work in defining a methodology for designing agents and agent based systems as mentioned in (Jennings, 1995; Jennings Wooldridge, 1995; Muller, 1992) A first approach for the definition of a general methodology for multiagent systems (MAS) is here presented, which has been developed because of the need to apply a multiagent platform to different applications. 2 The MAS CommonKADS approach The definition of a software ....

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Jennings, N. R. & Wooldridge, M. (1995). Applying agent technology. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 9(6):357--370.

.... Sciences Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology Electrum 230, S 164 40 Kista, Sweden 1 Introduction The agent metaphor has been used successfully in computer program development and theory for several years now, and the number of agent applications is increasing rapidly [5]. Roughly speaking, by agent we mean an independent piece of software often implemented as a separate process capable of communicating with other agents, and typically having well defined internal state, behavior, and goals. The concept of software agent, as well as the communication languages ....

Jennings N.R. and Wooldridge M., Applying Agent Technology, Applied AI, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 357-369, 1995.

....are not just used in the domain of e commerce, although this is arguably their most popular domain. Rather, agent technology should be viewed as a general solution paradigm for developing complex systems [63] Overviews of the application of agents in other domains can be found in [23] 66] [69], 109] it needs to be autonomous: capable of making decisions about what actions to take without constantly referring back to its user; it needs to be reactive: able to respond appropriately to the prevailing circumstances in dynamic and unpredictable environments; it needs to be ....

N.R. Jennings and M. Wooldridge. Applying agent technology. In N.R. Jennings and M. Wooldridge, editors, Agent Technology: Foundations, Applications, and Markets. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1998.

....systems, air traffic control, traffic and transportation management, information filtering and gathering, electronic commerce, business process management, entertainment and medical care. Whilst a comprehensive review of all the systems in all of these areas is beyond the scope of this paper (see [22, 83, 114]) we attempt to outline some of the key systems in these areas. 4.1.1. Industrial Applications Industrial applications of agent technology were among the first to be developed, and today, agents are being applied in a wide range of industrial systems: Manufacturing: Parunak [148] describes the ....

N. R. Jennings and M. Wooldridge. Applying agent technology. In N. R. Jennings and M. Wooldridge, editors, Agent Technology: Foundations, Applications, and Markets. Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Germany, 1998.

....1995; Jennings, 1994; PAAM, 1996) As applications become more complex so there is a concomitant increase in the sophistication of the agent systems. In particular, there is a trend towards exploiting the metaphor of an autonomous problem solving agent much more fully (see Wooldridge and Jennings (1995) for a review of work in this area) Autonomy, in this context, means the ability of an agent to decide for itself which goals it should adopt, how these goals should be pursued (including deciding when interactions with other agents are appropriate) and which actions should be performed at which ....

.... and its emphasis on system level issues restricting (Hewitt, 1991) Recently, a significant number of developers have adopted a more constructionist approach to multi agent system design in which individual autonomous agents, rather than the overall system, are the central unit of analysis (see Jennings and Wooldridge (1995) for a discussion of the reasons behind this shift) This approach has the advantage of being better suited to open and distributed domains (Hewitt, 1991) Also by reducing the amount of design at the level of the overall system, larger problems can be tackled more easily because the scope of the ....

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Jennings, N. R., and Wooldridge, M. J., (1995) "Applying Agent Technology" Int. Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence 9 (4) 351-369.

....say absurd) claims about its potential. Most recently, perhaps, the expert systems experience vividly illustrates the perils of overselling a promising technology. See also: pitfall 4.1 2. 2 Getting religious or dogmatic about agents Although agents have been used in a wide range of applications [15], they are not a universal solution. There are many applications for which conventional software development paradigms (such as object oriented programming) are far more appropriate. Indeed, given the relative immaturity of agent technology and the small number of deployed agent applications, ....

....it is only a matter of time before someone claims agents are a silver bullet. This would be a dangerous fallacy. As we pointed out above, there are good arguments in favour of the view that agent technology will lead to improvements in the development of complex distributed software systems [23, 15]. But, as yet, these arguments are largely untested in practice. There is certainly no scientific evidence to support the claim that agents offer any advance in software development the evidence to date is purely anecdotal. Even if agents do lead to a real improvement in software development ....

N. R. Jennings and M. Wooldridge. Applying agent technology. In N. R. Jennings and M. Wooldridge, editors, Agent-based computing: Markets and Applications. SpringerVerlag: Berlin, Germany, 1998.

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Jennings N, Wooldridge M (1995) Applying agent technology. J. of Applied Artificial Intelligence, special issue on Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

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