A Flexible Architecture for Representing Personality in Distributed Systems Development

摘要

The agent-oriented (AO) methodology is an effective means for constructing distributed systems. Despite a great deal of research, a number of challenges still exist before making agent-based computing a widely accepted paradigm in software engineering practice. In order to solve the problem of 揳 variety in number, dif.cult to apply? The paper presents a hierarchical development architecture (HAD) for customizing a new AO methodology according to the given project. Through applying the HAD-based meta models and design patterns, developers can build applications from third party off-the-shelf solution components. To exemplify its feasibility and effectiveness, the construction of C4I system is presented as a case study.