Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services

Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services
Author: Ryszard Kowalczyk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2003-07-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540365591

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the three agent-related workshops held during the NetObjectDays international conference, NODe 2002, held in Erfurt, Germany, in October 2002. The 23 revised full papers presented with a keynote paper and 2 abstracts were carefully selected during 2 rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent-oriented requirements engineering and specification, agent-oriented software engineering, reuse, negotiation and communication, large complex systems, e-business, and applications.

Application of Agents and Intelligent Information Technologies

Application of Agents and Intelligent Information Technologies
Author: Sugumaran, Vijayan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2006-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1599042673

Intelligent agent technology is emerging as one of the most important and rapidly advancing areas. Researchers are developing a number of agent-based applications and multi-agent systems in a variety of fields, such as: electronic commerce, supply chain management, resource allocation, intelligent manufacturing, mass customization, industrial control, information retrieval and filtering, collaborative work, mobile commerce, decision support, and computer games. Application of Agents and Intelligent Information Technologies presents an outstanding collection of the latest research associated with intelligent agents and information technologies. Application of Agents and Intelligent Information Technologies provides a comprehensive analysis of issues related to agent design, implementation, integration, deployment, evaluation, and business value. This book presents research results and application of agents and other intelligent information technologies in various domains. Application of Agents and Intelligent Information Technologies offers the intelligent information technologies that will potentially revolutionize the work environment as well as social computing.

Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems

Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems
Author: Federico Bergenti
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2006-04-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1402080581

As information technologies become increasingly distributed and accessible to larger number of people and as commercial and government organizations are challenged to scale their applications and services to larger market shares, while reducing costs, there is demand for software methodologies and appli- tions to provide the following features: Richer application end-to-end functionality; Reduction of human involvement in the design and deployment of the software; Flexibility of software behaviour; and Reuse and composition of existing software applications and systems in novel or adaptive ways. When designing new distributed software systems, the above broad requi- ments and their translation into implementations are typically addressed by partial complementarities and overlapping technologies and this situation gives rise to significant software engineering challenges. Some of the challenges that may arise are: determining the components that the distributed applications should contain, organizing the application components, and determining the assumptions that one needs to make in order to implement distributed scalable and flexible applications, etc.

Extending Web Services Technologies

Extending Web Services Technologies
Author: Lawrence Cavedon
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2006-03-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 038723344X

Extending Web Services Technologies addresses the rapidly growing impact of Multi-Agent Systems on web services tools and techniques. In particular, the book addresses the potential for MAS techniques to impact the difficult challenges that must be tackled for web services technology to realize its promises. The area of web services offers the multi-agent community exciting research possibilities, including similarities in system architectures, powerful tools, and a focus on issues such as trust and reliability. Likewise, techniques developed in the multi-agent research community promise to have a strong impact on this fast growing technology. The contents contain contributions by leading international researchers and professionals from both the web services and Multi-Agent Systems community. Topics include semantic web services and associated standards, architectures integrating agents and services, transactions, authorization, and service composition.

Agent Technology

Agent Technology
Author: Nicholas R. Jennings
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3662036789

The first book to provide an integrative presentation of the issues, challenges and success of designing, building and using agent applications. The chapters presented are written by internationally leading authorities in the field, with a general audience in mind. The result is a unique overview of agent technology applications, ranging from an introduction to the technical foundations to reports on dealing with specific agent systems in practice.

Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits

Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits
Author: Rainer Unland
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2006-01-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3764373482

This book introduces major agent platforms, frameworks, systems, tools, and applications. Each system is described by their developers in sufficient detail so that the reader can get a good understanding of the architecture, functionality, and application areas of the system. All systems are running systems. One main focus of the book lies on agent platforms and toolkits.

Software Agent-based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits

Software Agent-based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits
Author: Rainer Unland
Publisher: Birkhauser
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2005
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780817673475

This book introduces major agent platforms, frameworks, systems, tools, and applications. Each system is described by their developers in sufficient detail so that the reader can get a good understanding of the architecture, functionality, and application areas of the system. All systems are running systems. One main focus of the book lies on agent platforms and toolkits. They form the basis for the development of agent-based systems, thus, are a convenient starting point for everybody who wants to apply agent technology. Another focus lies on agent-based applications. These systems prove that agent technology is mature enough to permit the development of sophisticated applications, like electronic marketplaces, environments for computer-supported cooperative work, or transportation systems.

Agent and Multi-agent Technology for Internet and Enterprise Systems

Agent and Multi-agent Technology for Internet and Enterprise Systems
Author: Anne Hakansson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2010-07-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642135269

Research in multi-agent systems offers a promising technology for problems with networks, online trading and negotiations but also social structures and communication. This is a book on agent and multi-agent technology for internet and enterprise systems. The book is a pioneer in the combination of the fields and is based on the concept of developing a platform to share ideas and presents research in technology in the field and application to real problems. The chapters range over both applications, illustrating the possible uses of agents in an enterprise domain, and design and analytic methods, needed to provide the solid foundation required for practical systems.