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The theories and technologies of software agents was emerged from the artificial intelligence, and was regarded as the new development trend in distributed artificial intelligence. Since software agents are autonomous entities that could flexibly accomplish assigned tasks with the least human intervention, the researches have been carried on mainly on the following area:

  • Agent Architecture
  • Multi-agent system
  • Agent communication
  • Agent coordination and negotiation
  • Agent application
  • Agent development tool and environment

Agent architecture

An architecture can be defined simply as the portion of a system that provides and manages the primitive resources of an agent. The website of http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/cogarch0/ presented a pretty detailed discussion on the cognitive architecture of software agents. Individual architectures as well as multiple architectures are discusses in terms of theories employed, philosophy and methodological assumptions, properties, capabilities, environmenta and issues.

Open Agent Architecture

Open Agent Architecture (OAA), developed by SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center, is a distributed framework for constructing agent-based systems. It is structured so as to minimize the effort involved in creating new agents and “wrapping” legacy applications, written in various languages and operating on various platforms; to encourage the reuse of existing agents; and to allow for dynamism and flexibility in the makeup of agent communities.

For detail information, please refer to: http://www.ai.sri.com/~oaa/

Adaptive Agent Architecture

Adaptive Agent Architecture (AAA), developed by Center for Human-Computer Communication at Oregon Graduate Institute, specifies the environment for multi-agent interaction based on a JAVA library. The website of http://www.chef.cse.ogi.edu/AAA presents brief introduction on the characteristics of the architecture as well as the online access to a JAVAdoc as the demonstration of agent building.

 

 

 


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