(1888PressRelease)
December 08, 2006 - On-going Works
We are now developing a Generic Agent Shell that will support agent construction in a more principled way, providing several layers of reusable services and languages. They are concerned with:
Agent communication.
Specification of coordination mechanisms.
Services for conflict management.
Services for information distribution.
Common sense reasoning - time, action, causality, etc.
Integration of legacy application programs.
Purpose built application programs can make use of this agent architecture to enhance their problem solving and to improve their robustness through coordination with other agent based applications. Pre-existing (legacy) application programs can also be incorporated with little adoption and can experience similar benefits. This latter point is important because in many cases developing the entire application afresh would be considered too expensive or too large a change away from proven technology.
We collaborate with several Limited, a major provider of supply chain products and with the Technical Intelligence. Working closely in requirements analysis and specification of agent and architectural function and incorporate our ideas in their next generation of products. We work closely to design and develop the Generic Agent Shell architecture that will support agent development services.
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