Research and Design of Software Bus Based Generic Software Agent Architecture

Today alone with the agent technologies popularization, software agent technology has being applied into many information systems, like ERP system, CRM system, SCM system and OA system, etc. But till now, there are not any standards to follow for software agent design. In this paper, by research on agent characteristics and its working principle, we introduce software bus based design of generic software agent architecture and with a certain ERP workflow to describe its real application in an ERP system.