A Reusable Component Architecture for Agent Construction

A generic component based architecture is proposed as a basis for designing the agents used within Multi Agent Systems The architecture based on Sun s Java Beans is explored and both domain independent and applied component examples are described in detail Designs for theoretical new components for the applied agent are also proposed and examined

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