Background

Forums already exist for the standardization of agent technology. This has resulted in a number of successful agent solutions being fielded and the creation of a vibrant agent technology community; however, the technology has yet to find a role for itself in the standard enterprise development toolkit. We want to take a different approach. The Agent Technology Forum will work towards integrating agent technology into a conventional enterprise technology stack and development methodology. Rather than develop agent solutions that sit apart from existing enterprise applications, we want to find way to leverage the technology within core operational applications.

Objectives

Our current approach is to create a forum focused on solving real and pressing commercial problems, leveraging agent technology where appropriate. This is a pull approach (pulling the technology into the enterprise technology stack where appropriate) rather than the push approach that has been used to date (where conventional agent tools and techniques are pushed into an enterprise technology stack).

Existing approaches to enterprise software will be extended with agent technologies and methodologies where appropriate to assist the development of agent technology enabled solutions. (Some of the ideas behind this are laid out in the article Beyond Composite Applications, in the latest issue of Business Integration Journal. This is available here.

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