Abstract:
This paper proposes an approach to developing agents
that can be reused in a number of collaborative
applications. It particularly concerns those applications
that evolve rapidly over time and need continual
reconfiguration. This particularly applies to knowledge
intensive processes in virtual environments, which
requires quick reconfiguration to make then sustainable.
It bases the agents architecture on a collaborative
metamodel, which provides the ontology for building
reusable software agents within collaborative
environments. The paper describes the collaborative
metamodel, an example and a prototype implementation
and ways to integrate the model with agent systems.
