AGENT-ORIENTED MODELING AND DESIGN METHODS FOR E-SERVICES/WEB SERVICES 1
Milan Varga · 2006
The component modeling offers the potential to assemble applications much more rapidly than ever before. Agents can be viewed as specialized distributed components, offering greater flexibility than traditional components when developing certain applications. Different kinds of agents have different amounts of personality, mobility, interaction, collaboration, persistence and intelligence. Web services and service-based architectures are quickly becoming the standard development model for software applications. Agent-oriented software engineering techniques are becoming more popular which offer a new perspective to developing applications. Agents are an excellent technology for implementing web services or e-services. Web services and agents integration brings benefits both technologies.