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Integrating Agents in Software Applications

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Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services (NODe 2002)

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Once the decision is made of using agents in your software application you should decide how these agents are going to be implemented and integrated in your application. There are basically two options to implement agents. Either you use a dedicated agent platform or you implement the agents from scratch in some standard programming language. The choice between these options impacts the architecture of your application. This article will briefly discuss both options and will present object-oriented models to integrate agents in your application in case of the latter option being used. The presented models can be used as guidelines to integrate software agents in object-oriented software applications.

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  1. Software Architecture Group (SwA), Philips Research Prof. Holstlaan 4 (WDC 1-034), 5656, AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    A. J. N. van Breemen

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jaime G. Carbonell

  2. University of Saarland, Saabrücken, Germany

    Jörg Siekmann

  3. CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, 3053, Victoria, Australia

    Ryszard Kowalczyk

  4. Siemens AG, CT IC 6, Munich, Germany

    Jörg P. Müller

  5. Department of Computing, Glasgow Caledonian University, City Campus, 70 Cowcaddens Road, G4 0BA, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Huaglory Tianfield

  6. Institute for Computer Science, University of Essen, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

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van Breemen, A.J.N. (2003). Integrating Agents in Software Applications. In: Carbonell, J.G., Siekmann, J., Kowalczyk, R., Müller, J.P., Tianfield, H., Unland, R. (eds) Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services. NODe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36559-1_25

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