Software agents for internet-based systems and their design

Nowadays many business and engineering systems are Internet-based. This chapter describes how software agents can be used to build autonomous and collaborative Internet-based systems and how agents themselves participate in developing and designing these systems. We will introduce the principles of Internet agent-based systems, their classifications, architectures, design procedure, and applications.

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