SYSTEM ENGINEERING PROCESSES ACTIVITIES FOR AGENT SYSTEM DESIGN - Component based development for rapid prototyping

Jaesuk Ahn, Dung Lam, Thomas Graser, K. Suzanne Barber

2005

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.

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in Harvard Style

Ahn J., Lam D., Graser T. and Suzanne Barber K. (2005). SYSTEM ENGINEERING PROCESSES ACTIVITIES FOR AGENT SYSTEM DESIGN - Component based development for rapid prototyping . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 196-202. DOI: 10.5220/0002527401960202


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Jaesuk Ahn and Dung Lam and Thomas Graser and K. Suzanne Barber},
title={SYSTEM ENGINEERING PROCESSES ACTIVITIES FOR AGENT SYSTEM DESIGN - Component based development for rapid prototyping},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={196-202},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002527401960202},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - SYSTEM ENGINEERING PROCESSES ACTIVITIES FOR AGENT SYSTEM DESIGN - Component based development for rapid prototyping
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Ahn J.
AU - Lam D.
AU - Graser T.
AU - Suzanne Barber K.
PY - 2005
SP - 196
EP - 202
DO - 10.5220/0002527401960202