Reusable Patterns for Agent Coordination
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چکیده
Much of agent system development to date has been done on an ad hoc basis. These problems limit the extent to which “industrial applications” can be built using agent technology, as the building blocks, reusable techniques, approaches and architectures have either not been exposed or have not yet been fully elaborated. In the mid 80’s, supporters of object-oriented technology had similar problems. However, with the aid of software patterns, objects have provided an important shift in the way developers successfully build applications today. In this paper, after describing an agent pattern’s generic format, we identify a set of software patterns for agent coordination.
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