Properties and Models of Software Agents and Agent Systems

In this article the foundations for software agents and agent systems will be laid from the point of view of Engineering Sciences by applying the basics of software architecture. For architecture modeling an object-oriented approach will be used. The components of an agent system will be mapped on to object-oriented model types. With the help of object-oriented methods pecial model types for interactions and adaptivity serving re-use will be derived. The sound theore-tical considerations about software agents and agent systems and their object-oriented modeling and specification support and extend the functions described in the standardizations. Software Architecture Types The type of a software architecture (Horn and Schubert 1993) models software systems from the structural an