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....distributed. While their local threads can be supported on a single processor, it is also natural to distribute them across a network, supporting the distribution requirement. Second, the modularity of agents makes it natural to encapsulate humans as peer agents to computer processes, as in [14], using a common language and protocols to integrate people and machines. In the nature of the case, this integration requires people to reduce the bandwidth of their communication to a level that computerized agents can handle. While RAPPID s market mechanisms and partitioning of the problem ....

J. Y. C. Pan and J. M. Tenenbaum. An Intelligent Agent Framework for Enterprise Integration. In Famili, Nau, and Kim, Editors, Artificial Intelligence Applications in Manufacturing, pages 34983. MIT Press, 1992.

....The best approach to solving such problems is cooperative work of multiple intelligent agents. Architectures based on multiple cooperative agents have been investigated broadly and are accepted as an appropriate solution for problems which involve multiple experts with different area of expertise [10, 11]. The main idea of the approach is to apply a divide and conquer strategy. The problem to be solved is decomposed into smaller subproblems which can be solved by one agent. Agents are programs which perform certain tasks or provide the user with assistance while performing the same. An PLEX ....

J.Y.C. Pan, J.M. Tanenbaum, "An intelligent agent framework for enterprise integration", IEEE Trans. Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Vol. 21, No. 6, 1991.

....It should be dynamically adaptable to exceptional events as well as to accept evolutionary process refinement or reengineering. 3.2 Existing Examples The number of already existing agent based groupware is not so many, but some of them are already in use. Pan, et al. gave a very early example[17]. They give a framework of agentbased enterprise modeling. A enterprise is modeled with many discrete elements, each of which is an IA (Intelligent Agent) or a PA (Personal Assistant) The system was applied to a semiconductor fabrication process, in which case examples of IAs are machine control ....

....Process Tactics in contrast to business process reengineering. Business Process Tactics means dynamic, case based change of a process, while reengineering changes the process definition. 3. 3 Our Position In this research, our assumption on the agent based groupware is like those found in [17] and [9] An interface agent for each user is mandatory because we should maintain user models. Communications between a user and its interface agent should be recorded as well as communications among agents. Fig. 1 shows the concept of GADB, capturing all communication logs among agents and ....

Pan, J.Y.C. and Tenenbaum, J.M.: An Intelligent Agent Framework for Enterprise Integration. Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 21(6) (1991) 1391--1408

....well understood techniques, we take advantage of their maturity and aim to develop models and a methodology that will be easily learnt and understood by those familiar with the OO paradigm. Others have reached similar conclusions about the need for familiar, intuitive modelling techniques [14]. In specifying agent systems we employ a set of models which operate at two levels of abstraction. Firstly, from the external viewpoint, a system is modelled as an inheritance hierarchy of agent classes, of which individual agents are instances. Agent classes are characterized by their purpose, ....

J. Y. C. Pan and J. M. Tenenbaum. An intelligent agent framework for enterprise integration. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 21(6), 1991.

....way models at one level of abstraction into models at the next lower level. 1.0 Introduction The agent paradigm represents a significant shift in approach to the development of complex software systems. The need to model and understand agent system complexity is well recognized [11] 12][15][20] However, a comprehensive method for designing agent systems is lacking. There is little that has been done in the area of analysis and design of multi agent systems. The current modelling techniques are too complex and are often modifications of object oriented techniques without taking into ....

J. Pan, M. Tanenenbaum, An Intelligent Agent Framework for Enterprise integration, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 21, No. 6, 1991.

....to information, support decision making and aid in action execution. The use of collaborative information systems will result in Computer Integrated Enterprises that will be able to rapidly respond to a changing market place, integrate decisions and the performance of activities. 2 Based on [15] we can list several fundamental requirements that an agile and collaborative enterprise information architecture must address: Information access: accessing the wealth of information resources and services available through corporate networks, in ways allowing data and information to be ....

Pan, J.Y.C., Tenenbaum, J. M. An Intelligent Agent Framework for Enterprise Integration, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 21, 6, pp. 1391-1408, 1991. 42

....and incorporate concurrent design and manufacturing (concurrent engineering) principles. Multi agent architectures offer a promising solution with their novel approaches for dynamically creating and managing agent communities in widely distributed and ever changing manufacturing environments [1][2][3] In recent years, a number of distributed approaches to concurrent design and manufacturing have been proposed. SHADE [4] is primarily concerned with the information sharing aspect of the concurrent engineering problem. SHADE demonstrated a flexible infrastructure for anticipated ....

J.Y.C. Pan and M.J. Tenenbaum, An intelligent agent framework for enterprise integration, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 21(6), 1991, 1391-1408.

....to incorporate concurrent design and manufacturing (concurrent engineering) principles. Multi agent system architectures offer a promising solution with their novel approaches for dynamically creating and managing agent communities in widely distributed and ever changing manufacturing environments [1][2] In recent years, a number of distributed approaches to concurrent design and manufacturing have been proposed. SHADE [3] is primarily concerned with the information sharing aspect of the concurrent engineering problem. SHADE demonstrated a flexible infrastructure for anticipated ....

J.Y.C. Pan and M.J. Tenenbaum, An intelligent agent framework for enterprise integration, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 21(6):1391-1408, 1991.

....of discrete parts manufacturing. 1.0 INTRODUCTION Potentially one of the most significant opportunities for enterprise integration is the recent advancement of agent based systems. Numerous examples can be found in the literature of applications of agent based systems to enterprise integration (Pan and Tenenbaum, 1991); concurrent engineering (Cutkosky and Engelmore, 1992) Tenenbaum, Weber, and Gruber, 1992) and (Olsen, Cutkosky, Tenenbaum, and Gruber, 1994) and manufacturing (Kwok and Norrie, 1993) These systems exhibit significant advances in distributed problem solving. Before agents can be used widely ....

Pan, J. Y. C., and J. M. Tenenbaum, "An Intelligent Agent Framework for Enterprise Integration", IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 21, No. 6, November/ December 1991.

....time from some prearranged place with the results. There are numerous pros and cons for the use of agent based technology in distributed computer networks, but in depth discussion of this topic is outside the scope of this project. Further information regarding mobile agents may be found in : [26,27,24,25,5,6,7] 4.3 Available technologies for remote programming Currently there is little available to fully support this new remote programming paradigm. Three examples are outlined below : 4.3.1 Telescript Telescript is being developed by General Magic Inc. as a way to beat the barriers imposed by todays ....

J. Y. C. Pan, J. M. Tenenbaum : "An Intelligent Agent Framework for Enterprise Integra tion", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 21 No. 6, Novem ber/December1991.

....are sufficiently reliable, maintainable, and conformant, but to allow their design, implementation, and maintenance to be carried out by software analysts and engineers rather than AI researchers. Others have reached similar conclusions about the need for familiar, intuitive modelling techniques [ Pan and Tenenbaum, 1991 ] Our research program has centred upon the design, implementation and theoretical understanding of a particular Belief Desire Intention (BDI) agent architecture [ Georgeff and Lansky, 1986, Rao and Georgeff, 1991 ] which has now achieved considerable maturity. Recently, we have been applying ....

J. Y. C. Pan and J. M. Tenenbaum. An intelligent agent framework for enterprise integration. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 21(6), 1991.

....of individual tools. This article describes: 1) an approach to designing integrated engineering environments based on blackboard technology as the integrating infrastructure; and 2) an engineering environment developed at Ford Research Laboratory (FRL) using the approach. Pan and Tenenbaum [12] suggest that an integrated enterprise computing environment must support information access (the ability to locate appropriate information in a usable form) monitoring and automation (notification of events that affect local computation) cooperative work (people and computers working as a team ....

Jeff Y.C. Pan and Jay M. Tenenbaum. An intelligent agent framework for enterprise integration. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 21(6), November /December 1991.

....well understood techniques, we take advantage of their maturity and aim to develop models and a methodology that will be easily learnt and understood by those familiar with the OO paradigm. Others have reached similar conclusions about the need for familiar, intuitive modelling techniques [ Pan and Tenenbaum, 1991 ] In specifying agent systems we employ a set of models which operate at two levels of abstraction. Firstly, from the external viewpoint, a system is modelled as an inheritance hierarchy of agent classes, of which individual agents are instances. Agent classes are characterized by their purpose, ....

J. Y. C. Pan and J. M. Tenenbaum. An intelligent agent framework for enterprise integration. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 21(6), 1991.

....to enhance their performance, are becoming an increasingly popular means of conceptualising a diverse range of applications. This trend towards decentralised and cooperative problem solving occurs as a consequence of the desire to: increase the level of information integration across organisations [1, 2]; overcome the inherent limitations on intelligence present in any finite artificial system [3, 4] develop increasingly complex software systems [5, 6] and provide a more natural representation of the problem being tackled [7, 8, 9, 10] In Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) systems, ....

J. Y. C. Pan and J. M. Tenenbaum, An Intelligent Agent Framework for Enterprise Integration, IEEE Trans. on Systems Man and Cybernetics 21 (1991) 1409-1419.

....research are applicable in general to our work, we are more concerned with optimizing the performance of an existing organization where the desired behavior can be described by preferences and constraints, which allow efficient problem representation and solution. Our work is closer to that of Pan and Tenenbaum (1991), who discuss developing agent framework for enterprise integration. This latter work, however, does not address the need for multiattribute decision making. In many agent based system, an agent evaluates a payoff matrix to determine which action to take. As demonstrated by Horvitz (1988) and Dean ....

Pan, J.Y.C. and Tenenbaum, J.M. (1991). An intelligent agent framework for enterprise integration, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 1391-1408.

....the product life cycle. Among these are PACT (a testbed for building large scale CE systems) 33] DesignWorld [34] Galileo [35] and First Link (cable 9 Proposals are not generated in this way in reality. 17 harness configuration) 36] all based on the framework developed in Pan [37]. These systems also employ the point by point approach to create a design and assume that agents should primarily fill the role of assistants to human designers. The ACDS general model of design and the design process allows its electronic agents to take a more active role. In addition, a shared ....

Pan, J.Y.C. and J.M. Tenenbaum, An Intelligent Agent Framework for Enterprise Integration, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1991, Vol. 21, No. 6, p. 1391-1408.

....and technically viable to connect together large numbers of powerful, yet inexpensive, processing units that execute asynchronously. Decentralised and cooperative problem solving systems have been advocated as a means of: increasing the level of information integration across organisations (Pan and Tenenbaum, 1991; Papazoglou et al. 1992; Shina, 1991) overcoming the limitations on intelligence present in any finite artificial system (March and Simon, 1958; Minsky 1985; Simon, 1957) developing sophisticated applications (Jennings and Wittig, 1992; Neches et al. 1991) and providing a more natural ....

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