Paper Info
Title
How Do Agents Affect Modifiability? A Comparison between Two Architectures for Intelligent Virtual Environments for Training
Abstract
The use of agents is spreading as a means to develop different kinds of software systems, among which we can find Intelligent Virtual Environments for Training. The agent community has already started to pay attention to software engineering issues to develop agent-oriented systems, but they are mainly focused on methodologies and, to some extent, design patterns. However, not much attention has been paid to software architecture for the moment. We compare two agent-based software architectures for Intelligent Virtual Environments for Training that are intended to be easily extended and modified. The first one was designed using an organizational approach recommended by some agent oriented methodologies. The second one is a redesign of the first architecture using more formal principles and methods of software architecture design. A comparison between both architectures highlights the need to pay more attention to software architecture design in this field.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-88030-1_8
ECSA
Keywords
Field
DocType
software system,agent-based software architecture,design pattern,software engineering issue,agent community,intelligent virtual environments,software architecture design,agents affect modifiability,different kind,software architecture,agent-oriented system,software systems,software engineering
Database-centric architecture,Software design,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Software architecture description,Computer science,Agent architecture,Component-based software engineering,Resource-oriented architecture,Reference architecture,Software architecture
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5292.0
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
20
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gonzalo Méndez1305.82
Angélica Antonio292.63