Agent-based engineering, the Web, and intelligence

Author

Petrie, Charles J.

Author_Institution

Stanford Center for Design Res., CA, USA

Volume

11

Issue

6

fYear

1996

fDate

12/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

29

Abstract

Web based agents show great potential for design and engineering applications. To integrate engineering agents into the Web, researchers must resolve the conflict between HTTP´s client server protocol and the peer to peer protocol required by agents. The author surveys the types and definitions of agents, eventually focusing on those useful for engineering, and on how they can be integrated with the World Wide Web. Because it is simply silly to discuss software agents without distinguishing them from other types of software, the author ventures to offer a definition. It will be iconoclastic and perhaps applicable only to a certain type of engineering agent. But it will be useful in identifying some technical implementation issues

Keywords

Internet; computer aided engineering; knowledge based systems; online front-ends; software agents; user interfaces; HTTP; Web based agents; World Wide Web; agent based engineering; client server protocol; engineering applications; peer to peer protocol; software agents; technical implementation issues; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Autonomous agents; Design engineering; Intelligent agent; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Software performance; Taxonomy; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

IEEE Expert

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-9000

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/64.546579

Filename

546579