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A new approach to software design based on an agent-oriented architecture is presented. Unlike current research, we consider software to be designed and implemented with this methodology in mind. In this approach agents are considered adaptively communicating concurrent modules which are divided into a white box module responsible for the communications and learning, and a black box which is the independent specialized processes of the agent. A distributed Learning policy is also introduced for adaptability.
This paper describes a new adaptive, multi-agent approach to software architecture, currently being investigated as an on going project at Kyushu University.
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Hodjat, B., Savoie, C.J., Amamiya, M. (1998). An adaptive agent oriented software architecture. In: Lee, HY., Motoda, H. (eds) PRICAI’98: Topics in Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1531. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095256
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