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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTD.2004.11D.1.133

The e-Business Agent Prototyping System with Component Based Development Architecture  

Shin, Ho-Jun (대구가톨릭대학교대학원 전산통계학과)
Kim, Haeng-Kon (대구가톨릭대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartD / v.11D, no.1, 2004 , pp. 133-142 More about this Journal
Abstract
The next generation of web applications will need to be larger, more complex, and flexible Agent-oriented systems have great potential for these e-commerce applications. Agents can dynamically discover and compose e-services and mediate interactions. Development of software agents with CBD (Component Based Development) has proved to be successful in increasing speed to market of development Projects, lowering the development cost and providing better qualify. In this thesis, we propose a systemic development process for software agents using component and UML (Unified Modeling Language). We suggest a etA (e-business Agent) CBD reference architecture for layer the related components through identification and classification of general agent and e-business agent. We also propose the ebA-CBD process that is a guideline to consider the best features of existing agent oriented software engineering methodologies, while grounding agent-oriented concepts in the same underlying semantic framework used by UML. We first developed the agent components specification and modeled it with Goal, Role, Interaction, and Architecture Model. Based on this, we developed e-CPIMAS (e-Commerce Product Information Mailing Agent System) as a case study that provides the product information's mailing service according to proposed process formality. We finally describe how these concepts may assist in increasing the efficiency reusability, productivity and quality to develop the business application and e-business agent.
Keywords
CBD(Component Based Development); ebA-CBD(e-business Agent-CBD); ebA-CBD;
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