Business Rules' Approach to the Modelling, Design, and Implementation of
Agent-Oriented Information Systems
Kuldar Taveter
VTT Information Technology
(Technical Research Centre of Finland)
P.O.Box 1201, FIN-02044 VTT, Finland
Tel. +358 9 456 6044, fax +358 9 456 6027
kuldar.taveter@vtt.fi
Abstract
We propose an approach where the modelling, design, and implementation
of agent-oriented information systems is based on business rules. By using
an example of car rental, we show how the process of agent-oriented modelling
and design could look like. It starts from the modelling of autonomous
functional units of an organization by agents, and continues by modelling
a common understanding of the problem domain and its business rules for
the agents by creating an ontology. We show how business rules can be further
expressed through beliefs and goals of the agents, and how business processes
can be described through repetitive setting and realization of the agents'
goals, and through high-level communication between the agents. We also
show how beliefs and goals of such agents can be implemented as a combination
of hybrid knowledge and procedural reasoning.
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