Title: Opportunities to support the widespread adoption of software agent technologies

Authors: Monique Calisti, Giovanni Rimassa

Addresses: Whitestein Technologies AG, Pestalozzistrasse 24, 8032, Zurich, Switzerland. ' Whitestein Technologies AG, Pestalozzistrasse 24, 8032, Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract: This article discusses our main thoughts regarding the current state of adoption of software agent technologies, their possible future evolution and a few desirable improvements in the overall connection to the software industry at large. Moreover, it tries to suggest a few concrete action lines along which the agent community can drive its efforts in order to effectively support the widespread adoption of agent concepts and techniques in software engineering.

Keywords: software agents; technology transfer; software industry; multi-agent systems; MAS; agent-based systems; agent-oriented software engineering.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAOSE.2009.025320

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, 2009 Vol.3 No.4, pp.411 - 415

Published online: 19 May 2009 *

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