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Trade agent project Work Unit 3 report on status quo on agent technology
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@MISC{Rogier_tradeagent,
author = {Contact Person Rogier and J. L. H Rogier and Th. Veugen and R. Lachman and E. Hemelaar and M. Van Breukelen and J. Hamers},
title = {Trade agent project Work Unit 3 report on status quo on agent technology},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
This report gives an overview on the state of the art of agent technology from three different perspectives. The technology perspective tells us what we can currently make. The modelling perspective tells us till what extend we currently can abstract from raw implementation and coding issues. The security perspective tells us till what extend we can make agent based solution secure and trusted. The first approach considers agent technology from technological point of view. It presents an overview of technology types, currently available technologies, currently available products and research activities for the development of products and technologies. The overall conclusion is that currently available technology is relatively simple but it is expected that these will fast improve. The second approach concerns modelling issues. It mainly concentrates on negotiation strategies where and how to apply these their relevance and discusses lower level techniques that may be of use for implementation purposes. Based on the discussion on fundamental principles it then discusses some available systems. The overall conclusion is that the available systems differ in expressive power. The third approach concentrates on security issues. It distinguishes between general and specific security aspects for trading agents, the trading process and transactions. Special attention is paid at activities of FIPA on this issue. The main focuss of this paragraph is to provide a basic vocabulary of security terminology that allows describing a system for this aspect. The overall conclusion is security constraints heavily depend on the type of system one build but more important that the current state of the art does not allow drawing conclusions on security issues for available techniques. Conclu...
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agent technology status quo trade agent project work unit overall conclusion available system security issue available technology special attention level technique trading agent raw implementation specific security aspect security perspective tell second approach concern implementation purpose trading process basic vocabulary technological point fundamental principle perspective tell expressive power first approach considers available technique solution secure security constraint available product research activity negotiation strategy technology perspective tell main focus current state security terminology different perspective third approach concentrate technology type
