1 Gilda Pour, Department of Computer Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0180, U.S.A. [email protected] Abstract – Agent-oriented enterprise software engineering (AOESE) has emerged as a promising approach to developing Web-based enterprise software systems. AOESE is based on developing and evolving enterprise software systems from selected pre-engineered and pre-tested soft...

developed technology, has enabled sophisticated computer software named as “electronic agent” initiate and complete transactions without human intervention. having considered the notion of electronic agents, this paper is going to consider their legal nature and analyze treatments taken by writers, international instruments, national laws and legal procedures on electronic agents. finally this ...

The community of agent researchers and engineers has produced a number of interesting and mature results. However, agent technology is still not widely adopted by industrial software developers or software companies. Yet, given that the software paradigms which are currently employed by the software industry, such as service-oriented architectures or cloud computing, have much in common with ag...

An important trend for the future of health technology will be the increasing use of intelligent agent software for medical applications. As the complexity of situations faced by both patients and health care providers grows, conventional interfaces that rely on users to manually transfer data and manually perform each problem-solving step, won't be able to keep up. This article describes how s...

We describe a simple agent which performs a specific task reliably and with little maintenance and user intervention required. The agent task is to monitor recent game results involving the Cleveland Indians baseball team by examining the content and structure of the official team webserver. A brief summary of each new game result is reported to the user. We outline a simple architecture for ke...

Agent-based computing represents an exciting new synthesis both for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, more generally, Computer Science. It has the potential to significantly improve the theory and the practice of modeling, designing, and implementing computer systems. Yet, to date, there has been little systematic analysis of what makes the agent-based approach such an appealing and powerful co...

The objective of this paper is to examine the crucial area of coordination in multi-agent systems. It does not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the coordination literature ; rather, it highlights the necessity for coordination in agent systems and overviews briefly various coordination techniques. It critiques these techniques and presents some conclusions and challenges which we ...

The computational needs of the Intelligent Room – while not unique – were not satisfied by any pre-existing software systems or programming environments. We wanted the Intelligent Room’s software infrastructure to be persistent, robust, and dynamically reconfigurable. We needed the ability to modify (or even introduce) individual components without bringing the whole system down, and we wanted ...

Imagine you are observing the decision-making of a software agent and notice some imperfections. What should you be able to say to it? What would be a good "advice language" that (a) allows one to provide, in a natural, flexible, and imprecise manner, new information to the agent, while (b) ensuring that the agent’s learning mechanism can use the advice? We discuss these questions about broaden...