Properties and models of software agents and prefabrication for agent application systems

Author

Horn, E. ; Kupries, M. ; Reinke, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Potsdam Univ., Germany

Volume

Track8

fYear

1999

fDate

5-8 Jan. 1999

Abstract

This paper introduces properties and object-oriented models of software agents. Based on literature on agent technology, properties of agents are explained systematically. Agent systems are understood as a software architecture type. To simplify and refine this complex topic, special models describing properties of re-usable agents are discussed. This leads to the prefabrication for mobility, co-ordination and security as building block and property classes for the construction of special agent application architectures. The prefabricated classes and the constructive use of object-oriented techniques simplify the development of agent application system.

Keywords

object-oriented programming; software agents; software architecture; software reusability; agent application systems; co-ordination; mobility; object-oriented models; object-oriented techniques; prefabrication; reusable agents; security; software agent models; software agent properties; software architecture; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer science; Connectors; Information security; Large-scale systems; Object oriented modeling; Software agents; Software architecture; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Sciences, 1999. HICSS-32. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Maui, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0001-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1999.773092

Filename

773092