Reusable software components based on an agent model

Software reuse is a key technology to improve the efficiency of design and maintenance of large software systems. One of the problems in reuse technology is in retrieving components which a programmer wants to modify based on the given specification. We have been studied a framework called ADIPS framework which provides agent based distributed application systems. The framework consists of virtual machines where multi-agent systems work and repositories which manage agent based components. The authors propose a reuse model of software components applying the framework to it and an architecture of the reusable components based on the agent model