篇名 | An Architecture for Multi-Agent COTS Software Integration Systems |
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卷期 | 18:1 |
作者 | Fang, Guo-ming 、 Lin, Jim-min 、 Hong, Zeng-wei 、 Chin, Kai-yi |
頁次 | 015-030 |
關鍵字 | COTS Software Reuse/Integration 、 Agent UML AUML 、 Multi-Agent Distributed Scripting System MADSS 、 Software Architecture 、 EI 、 MEDLINE 、 Scopus |
出刊日期 | 200704 |
Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products are increasingly used as software components in large-scale systems. We had proposed an approach for distributed COTS software integration by using the concepts of multi-agent system and distributed scripting mechanism. To describe the experience in the COTS software integration and facilitate the reuse of the software integration procedure, this paper presents a multi-agent architecture for the COTS software integration systems. This architecture is of a threelayered structure and is described with the Agent UML (AUML). Since the interaction and internal processing of agents is clearly described in the proposed architecture, programmers may have a guide to build a software system and implement the protocols and behaviors of agents according to the three-layered description. To illustrate the use of the proposed architecture, an example system is also experimented in our study.