Research and development challenges for agend-based systems

The increasing sophistication of today's information era poses certain challenges to traditional information technology (IT) systems. Agent-based software technology is rapidly evolving to meet the demands of this new information era. However, before agent-based solutions can be routinely and successfully exploited in real-world problems, certain fundamental research and software engineering issues have to be addressed. Some of the key challenges for the research and development of agent-based software systems are discussed. Our discussion is carried out from the twin viewpoints of fundamental research questions and software engineering issues.

[1]  Rodney A. Brooks,et al.  A Robust Layered Control Syste For A Mobile Robot , 2022 .

[2]  Jon Doyle,et al.  A Truth Maintenance System , 1979, Artif. Intell..

[3]  James L. McClelland,et al.  Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 1: foundations , 1986 .

[4]  Pattie Maes,et al.  Situated agents can have goals , 1990, Robotics Auton. Syst..

[5]  Jörg P. Müller,et al.  Modelling Reactive Behaviour in Vertically Layered Agent Architectures , 1995, ECAI Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages.

[6]  Tom M. Mitchell,et al.  Experience with a learning personal assistant , 1994, CACM.

[7]  Michael R. Genesereth,et al.  Software agents , 1994, CACM.

[8]  E. Shortliffe.  Computer-based medical consultations: mycin (elsevier north holland , 1976 .

[9]  Allen Newell,et al.  Human Problem Solving. , 1973 .

[10]  Oren Etzioni,et al.  A softbot-based interface to the Internet , 1994, CACM.

[11]  Ramanathan V. Guha,et al.  Enabling agents to work together , 1994, CACM.

[12]  Pattie Maes,et al.  Agents that reduce work and information overload , 1994, CACM.

[13]  Thomas R. Gruber,et al.  A Translation Approach to Portable Ontologies , 1993 .

[14]  Munindar P. Singh.  Book review: ARCHON: An Architecture for Multi-agent Systems. Edited by Wittig, Thies (Ellis Horwood Limited (distributed by Prentice Hall), 1992) , 1996, SGAR.

[15]  Nicholas R. Jennings,et al.  Intelligent agents: theory and practice , 1995, The Knowledge Engineering Review.

[16]  Edward H. Shortliffe,et al.  Chapter 3 – Consultation System , 1976 .

[17]  Edward H. Shortliffe,et al.  Computer-based medical consultations, MYCIN , 1976 .

[18]  Hyacinth S. Nwana,et al.  Software agents: an overview , 1996, The Knowledge Engineering Review.

[19]  James A. Hendler,et al.  AI Planning: Systems and Techniques , 1990, AI Mag..

[20]  Reid G. Smith,et al.  The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver , 1980, IEEE Transactions on Computers.

[21]  Sam Steel,et al.  Topics in Planning , 1987, Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence.

[22]  Thomas Bäck,et al.  Evolutionary algorithms in theory and practice - evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, genetic algorithms , 1996 .

[23]  Edmund H. Durfee,et al.  The agent architecture of the Univercity of Michingan Digital Library , 1997, IEE Proc. Softw. Eng..