Component software: beyond object-oriented programming
Component software: beyond object-oriented programming
Seven good reasons for mobile agents
Communications of the ACM
IEEE Concurrency
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Exploiting UML in the Design of Multi-agent Systems
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Context-Dependency in Internet-Agent Coordination
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
On Observing and Constraining Active Systems
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
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We present a first approach that combines the mobile agent and the compositional paradigms into a new agent-based compositional model. The aim of this work is to explore the capabilities of both paradigms in improving the design and development of open and distributed systems. Our goal is to add compositional characteristics to mobile agents by defining an agent-based compositional model. We take advantage of the mobility and the composition capability by applying this model to the problem of searching software components in partially-instantiated applications, both in design and run time. That is, the abstract components of an architectural design of an application can be fulfilled with concrete ones by retrieving them from the Internet.