Evolving software agent societies interchanging functionalities

This paper purposes a new computation model that integrates some of the most important agent technology concepts, which are based on the agent concept as the keyword from which to establish the three main pillars of the paradigm. First, a new kind of internal and external structure of the agent and of the environment where it resides based on dynamical components is described. Second, the application of a new variety of evolutionary heuristic existing at different levels of abstraction, which is based on concepts obtained from the evolutionary computation is described. And finally, new software engineering techniques are introduced to manage the design and development of these systems