Authors:
Stéphane Faulkner
;
Manuel Kolp
;
Adrien Coyette
and
T. Tung Do
Affiliation:
Information Systems Research Unit, University of Louvain, Belgium
Keyword(s):
Agent Systems, Architectural Description Language, Organizational Styles, BDI Agent Model, System Architecture,
E-commerce Application.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agent-Oriented Programming
;
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Agent architectures are gaining popularity for building open, distributed, and evolving software required by
e-commerce applications. Unfortunately, despite considerable work in software architecture during the last decade, few research efforts have aimed at truly defining patterns and languages for agent architectural design. This paper proposes a modern approach based on organizational structures and architectural description languages to define and specify agent architectures notably in the case of e-commerce system design.