Reuse in Agent-based Application Development

The agent computational model has the potential to improve the theory and practice of modeling, designing and implementing software applications. Agent-based Software Engineering should consider advances and also lessons learned in software reuse, particularly, the requirement of effective reusable software abstractions. This work proposes a model for developing reusable software using the agent paradigm. Reusable software abstractions generated through Agent-based Application Engineering are analyzed considering both their abstraction level and domain dependence.

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