AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR MILITARY LOGISTICS

Abstract

The development of modern information systems in various application areas (e-commerce, logistics, and intelligent telecommunication services) presents a serious challenge to software technologies. This can be acknowledged to the difficulty, complexity, heterogeneity and distributed functionality of the systems. It is still a difficult task to find a homogeneous technological framework for the effective solution of these problems. Different models and standard frameworks have been developed for this kind of systems.1 Although they posses certain advantages, the requirement for generality makes their application in specific domains relatively expensive. In addition, considerable resources are needed for their adaptation.2 Agent-based systems solve some of these problems, especially those systems developed in e-commerce applications.3 The agent-based technology offers flexibility and easier adaptation.