ABFSC: AN AGENTS BASED FRAMEWORK FOR SOFTWARE COMPOSITION
Gao Ji · Chinese Journal of Computers · 1999
One of hot research issues of software engineering is to develop integrated application systems under distributed computing environment by software composition. The description of software architecture provides an important means to support software composition, but existed resolutions are not sufficient to describe explicitly collaboration and semantic interoperation among software components. This paper proposes an agents based framework for software composition, called ABFSC, which consists of two layers: agent collaboration and skill composition. ABFSC is intended to support the transparent design of plug in architecture of integrated application systems and the explicit description of collaboration and semantic interoperation among software components. It not only fills the gap between the present research of software architecture and the practical technology of software components and software bus, but also reduces the complexity of software composition.