Abstract
The software architecture determines for a critical part the
success of an industrial application. In this context success
should be understood in terms of so called ‘ilities’, such as
interoperability, integrability and responsiveness. Now that
agent research is most actual we notice that industry is still
cautious about adopting the results obtained in this research
area. Introducing agents in a software architecture adds unpredictability,
simply because agents are new and thus there
is little industrial experience. In order to gain agent experience
in an important domain for Philips, we have built a
prototype of an agent-based industrial software application.
The application concerns a proactive music gathering application
that is embedded in an Internet-aware personalized
MP3 player. In this paper we discuss the application’s software
architecture and evaluate its success in terms of several
traditional software engineering ‘ilities’.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Proceedings of the second internal joint Conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, 14-18 July 2003 Melbourne, Australia |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 1146-1147 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1-58113-683-8 |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 |