Jürgen Lind. Patterns in Agent-Oriented
Software Engineering (download pdf)Abstract In this paper, I will show how the now popular concept of software patterns can be used in agent-oriented software engineering. To this end, I will present a possible structure of a pattern catalog for agent-oriented patterns and introduce a pattern description scheme that accounts for the specific needs of agent patterns. Then, I will provide two examples for how this scheme can be used to describe actual agent patterns.
This paper is almost identical to the online version that is to be found here.
Jürgen Lind. Relating Agent Technology
and Component Models (download pdf)
Abstract In this paper, I discuss some conceptual and technical
similarities and differences between component models and agent technology.
To this end, I briefly introduce three component platforms and relate conceptual
and technical aspects to the agent world with respect to the entities, interactions
and problem solving capabilities that are characteristic for either technology.
From this comparison, I finally derive some ideas on where agent technology
could extend the component approach to make it easier to build complex and
distributed systems.
This paper is almost identical to the online version that is to be found
here.