2 Software Agents and Agent-Based Systems ........................................... 3 2.1 Principles and Techniques of Software Agents .......................................................... 3 2.2 Architectures of Agent-Based Systems ........................................................................18 2.3 Examples of Software Agents Systems in the WWW ...................................

Software engineering development is crucial for industrial and commercial applications as these systems are required to operate in increasingly complex, distributed, open, dynamic, unpredictable, and inherently highly interactive environments. This work is being motivated by the need to engineer complex systems with autonomous entities, to manage their inherent complexity during analysis, desig...

Agent ownership is a complex issue that crosses legal domains. There are at least two different dimensions to agent ownership. On one dimension, an agent is a piece of software and as such it is an intellectual property which belongs to its owner and is governed by the law on intellectual property. On another dimension, a software agent can act like a business agent. In this paper we discuss so...

Agent augmented reality is proposed in this paper as a new research area that uses agent technologies for the augmentation of our real world environment by actively integra.til,g information worlds. ~e introduce a special agent called a real world agent. A real world agm,r is a software agent that cau support its user in performing tasks in real world environments, such aa placeto-place ]oeatio...

Network Management (NMS) application vendors, often encounter a situation where the device being managed or tested (which includes an SNMP agent) is not available at the time of the NMS application devel opment, whereupon this becomes the critical path in the development cycle of the new device. To shorten this critical path, we’ve developed GeNMSim, which is a Tcl/Tk based Multi Platform SNMP ...