{"title":"An agent version of a cluster server","authors":"Andraz Bezek, M. Gams","doi":"10.1109/CCGRID.2003.1199426","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Agent-oriented software engineering is promising substantial improvements especially for the design of distributed systems. But currently, there is a substantial gap between the massive number of publications advocating advantages of agents and the relatively small number of successful large applications. We present an agent-based cluster server application together with the analysis of advantages and disadvantages of the agent-based version compared to the non agent-based version of functionally similar cluster server application. Obtained experience is analyzed from the viewpoints of designers, developers and users. Observations confirm several previously published advantages of the agent-based approach and implementation: yet reveal some less familiar disadvantages as well. Overall, we argue that agents provide reasonable benefits already at this stage, while we lack further agent-based research.","PeriodicalId":433323,"journal":{"name":"CCGrid 2003. 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2003. Proceedings.","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CCGrid 2003. 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2003. Proceedings.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2003.1199426","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Agent-oriented software engineering is promising substantial improvements especially for the design of distributed systems. But currently, there is a substantial gap between the massive number of publications advocating advantages of agents and the relatively small number of successful large applications. We present an agent-based cluster server application together with the analysis of advantages and disadvantages of the agent-based version compared to the non agent-based version of functionally similar cluster server application. Obtained experience is analyzed from the viewpoints of designers, developers and users. Observations confirm several previously published advantages of the agent-based approach and implementation: yet reveal some less familiar disadvantages as well. Overall, we argue that agents provide reasonable benefits already at this stage, while we lack further agent-based research.