Authors:
Jaesuk Ahn
;
Dung Lam
;
Thomas Graser
and
K. Suzanne Barber
Affiliation:
Leboratory of Intelligent Processes and Systems, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Keyword(s):
Component based development, agent system design, agent oriented software engineering, repository
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
CASE Tools for System Development
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Engineering Methodologies
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
System designers of agent-based system are challenged by the lack of mature agent software development methodologies, the diversity of agent technologies, and the lack of a common framework for describing these technologies challenges architects attempting to evaluate, compare, select, and potentially reuse agent technology. Leveraging existing work to (1) categorize and compare agent technologies under a common ontology, (2) build a repository of agent technologies to assist system designer in browsing and comparing agent technologies, this paper proposes an architecting process and toolkit support to rapidly prototype an agent-based system by selecting agent technology components in the context of a given high level reference architecture and associated requirements.