An architecture for intelligent collaborative systems based on multi-agent

Intelligent collaborative systems can bring some dispersed teams together, automatically supporting communication and cooperation. Both teams and everyone are able to benefit from the collaborative process. However, the construction of intelligent collaborative environment is key attributes in collaboration system which appears to serve the needs of teams of software collaborative development. So at first the paper introduces communication modes and describes the architecture of intelligent collaborative systems based on multi-agent. Multi-agent technology has recently become one of the promising technologies used in various complex applications. The use of multi-agent technology can increase efficiency of team works in collaborative environments via Internet or Intranet. Then this paper analyses the collaborative developing environment and methods by using multi-agent, and presents research on collaborative communication mechanism among agents and result share model. Finally, this paper discusses its future work. In this paper, we propose one more flexible and extensible solution to help teams to develop the project in intelligent collaborative environment.

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