A Layered Agent Template for Enterprise Computing

Authors:
Carmen M. Pancerella;Nina M. Berry
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems: Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems
Year:
2000

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Abstract

The development of agent systems based on layered agent templates has expanded the development and deployment of agent applications. We are developing an agent template to support the integration of a wide range of enterprise applications. In particular, we are targeting existing enterprises, such that agents can manage enterprise resources and reason across these resources. This agent template has five functional layers. Software developers can plugand-play layers and customize features in each layer. We have discovered infrastructure requirements and design issues for employing layered agent designs into existing enterprises. In this brief paper we describe some requirements of our agent template. In general, we believe these same issues are relevant to system designers who are building multi-agent systems for use in large scale enterprise computing.