A novel agent based enterprise level system development technology

Abstract

The main objective of this research work is to propose and analyze capabilities of agent technology based business information system development instead of object oriented or process based software development. This thesis argues model based reactive agent as the basic abstraction for modeling and implementing enterprise business information systems The proposed agent based Information System modeling results in models of business requirements and software models that are ontologically natural as per Bunge-Wand Weber criteria for information system modeling languages Agent based models inherently encapsulate business role and their functionality along with norms of action i e enforce rules of business association in all communication It is shown agent based models are loosely coupled in behavioral and structural modeling dimensions providing desired software engineering characteristics to the resulting software system Through a case study it is illustrated that agent based information systems are very intuitive to analyze specify design and implement This research work is divided into four parts. The first part consists of a software modeling language proposal namely Agent Oriented Modeling Language AOML that is ontologically aligned with system requirements model AOML models consist of structural behavioral and grouping model diagrams such as agent diagram agent interaction diagram agent organization diagram agent state transition diagram and so on newline