A foundational analysis of software robustness using redundant agent collaboration

  • Authors:
  • Vance T. Holderfield;Michael N. Huhns

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

  • Venue:
  • NODe'02 Proceedings of the NODe 2002 agent-related conference on Agent technologies, infrastructures, tools, and applications for E-services
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

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.