Achieving the Promise of Reuse with Agent Components

Abstract

Abstract. Using software agents as next generation flexible components and applying reuse technologies to rapidly construct agents and agent systems have great promise to improve application and system construction. Whether built on conventional distributed computing and application management platforms, on a specialized agent platform, on web service technology or within a P2P infrastructure, agents are a good match for independent development, for scalable and robust systems and dynamic evolution of features, and for autonomic self-managing systems. In this paper we describe the vision and progress we have made towards developing a robust infrastructure, methods, and tools for this goal.

Towards a unified formal model for supporting mechanisms of dynamic component update

“…Plasil, F. et al [31] presented SOFA (SOFtware Appliances) architecture, the SOFA component model and its extension, DCUP (Dynamic Component UPdating), which provided a small set of well scaling orthogonal abstractions (easily mapped to Java and CORBA) to support dynamic component update in running applications. Martin L. Griss and Robert R. Kessler [9] treated software agents as next generation flexible components that support dynamic evolution of features and autonomic self-managing.…”

Formal architectural models for agent-based service systems

“…Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a new paradigm in distributed systems aiming at building loosely-coupled systems that are extendible, flexible, safer and fit well with existing legacy systems. Agents have been considered as next generation components (Griss and Kessler, 2003) that can be used to build models for SOA. It is our attempt to combine these two paradigms together to build agent based architectures for the service systems.…”