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store beliefs, descriptions of events that the agent
can handle, and plans that agent use to handle the
events. Table 8 shows a map between GCB card
and JACK constructs.
Table 8: GCB card to JACK agent.
GCB card Goal Goal
Case
Collaborator Belief
JACK agent
Constructs
Event Plan
Agent Database
The mapping rules above are used to implement
the designed agents in the case study. The similar
implementation has been done by Zhang (Zhang,
2002).
6 CONCLUSIONS/FUTURE
WORK
This paper has presented a systematic approach to
design software agents for virtual organization
formation. In this approach, role pattern and layered
architecture are used to simplify agent analysis and
design processes. Various card templates used to
define agent behaviours are developed to assist agent
design. The case study has been used to verify and
validate the approach. Subsequently, the approach
can be applied to different businesses which involve
data and services from various sources. As a result
of this research, the approach has demonstrated its
advantages of flexibility, adaptability, scalability and
robust. Future work will be focused on extension of
the case study to incorporate services provided by a
cloud computing platform.
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