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21 Cards in this Set
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legacy software
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Software that is essential to an organization, but was written using antiquated development techniques; 'agent wrappers' can be used to embed legacy software within an 'agent layer', making it possible to allow the software to interact with other agents.
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internal and external models
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agent model
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interaction model
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agent class model
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agent instance model
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In agent-oriented software engineering, specifies the instances of agent classes that exist in a run-time system.
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roles
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A key idea in agent-oriented software engineering: a role is defined by responsibilities/obligations and permissions/rights.
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agent class hierarchy
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In agent-oriented software engineering, specifies a set of agent types that inherit properties, in much the same way as an object class hierarchy as object-oriented programming.
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organizational design
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The problem of designing a society of agents.
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responsibilities
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Associated with a role in agent-oriented software engineering, responsibilities define the tasks associated with the role.
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permissions
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In agent-oriented software engineering, the rights that agents have in order to achieve their goals.
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activities
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protocols
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agent-oriented decomposition
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In agent-oriented software engineering, a technique for identifying the agents to build for a system
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remote procedure call
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A classic blocking form of communication / interaction in distributed systems.
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blocking communication
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Communication between processes, as typified by method invocation, in which the initiator blocks (i.e., waits) until the recipient responds.
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mobile agent
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An agent that can transmit itself over an electronic network, recommencing execution at some remote site.
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telescript places
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telescript agents
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Mobile software agents implemented in the Telescript language.
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telescript permit
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safe TCL
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A mobile-agent programming language, based on the TCL scripting language.
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