TY - GEN
T1 - Behavior patterns for mobile agent systems from the development process viewpoint
AU - Tahara, Y.
AU - Ohsuga, A.
AU - Honiden, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by a grant to Bauer E. Sumpio from NIH R01HL47345, VA Merit Review Board and American Heart Association National, and to Nobuyoshi Azuma from Uehara memorial foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2001 IEEE.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - As wide-area open networks like the Internet and intranets grow larger, mobile agent technology is attracting more attention. Agents are units of software that can deal with environmental changes and the various requirements of open networks through features such as autonomy, mobility, intelligence, cooperation, and reactivity. However, since the usual development methods of the agent systems are not sufficiently investigated, the technology is not yet widespread. In previous papers, we introduced behavior patterns for mobile agent systems and the development method. The behavior patterns represent typical and recurring structures and behaviors of agents. The patterns are classified according to their appropriate architectural levels and the degree to which they depend on specific agent platforms. We evaluate the advantages of our method from the development process viewpoints. Our evaluation focuses on the development efficiency, the applicability, the extensibility and the understandability of our method.
AB - As wide-area open networks like the Internet and intranets grow larger, mobile agent technology is attracting more attention. Agents are units of software that can deal with environmental changes and the various requirements of open networks through features such as autonomy, mobility, intelligence, cooperation, and reactivity. However, since the usual development methods of the agent systems are not sufficiently investigated, the technology is not yet widespread. In previous papers, we introduced behavior patterns for mobile agent systems and the development method. The behavior patterns represent typical and recurring structures and behaviors of agents. The patterns are classified according to their appropriate architectural levels and the degree to which they depend on specific agent platforms. We evaluate the advantages of our method from the development process viewpoints. Our evaluation focuses on the development efficiency, the applicability, the extensibility and the understandability of our method.
KW - EAI (Enterprise Application Integration)
KW - design pattern
KW - development method
KW - development support tool
KW - mobile agent
KW - software architecture
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U2 - 10.1109/ISADS.2001.917421
DO - 10.1109/ISADS.2001.917421
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84964056018
T3 - Proceedings - 5th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2001
SP - 239
EP - 242
BT - Proceedings - 5th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2001
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2001
Y2 - 26 March 2001 through 28 March 2001
ER -