This paper describes the current evolution of agent middleware, supporting and promoting an autonomous agent component model. We first assess the current state of agent technology, then we make a case for increased integration between agents and their environment, composed by entities with different models. We notice that this integration trend emerged more and more in the last few years, but there are still important issues to be tackled and solved. Examples drawn from our experience with concrete agent infrastructures such as JADE are used to ground the discussion.
Towards Seamless Agent Middleware / Omicini Andrea; Rimassa Giovanni. - STAMPA. - (2004), pp. 417-422. (Intervento presentato al convegno IEEE 13th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE 2004). 2nd International Workshop ``Theory and Practice of Open Computational Systems'' (TAPOCS 2004) tenutosi a Modena, Italy nel 14-16 June 2004) [10.1109/ENABL.2004.73].
Towards Seamless Agent Middleware
OMICINI, ANDREA;
2004
Abstract
This paper describes the current evolution of agent middleware, supporting and promoting an autonomous agent component model. We first assess the current state of agent technology, then we make a case for increased integration between agents and their environment, composed by entities with different models. We notice that this integration trend emerged more and more in the last few years, but there are still important issues to be tackled and solved. Examples drawn from our experience with concrete agent infrastructures such as JADE are used to ground the discussion.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
