We
need open architectures that continuously change and evolve to
accommodate new components and meet new requirements. More and more
software must operate on different platforms, without recompilation and
with minimal assumptions about its operating systems and users. It must
be robust, autonomous and proactive. These circumstances motivated the
development of Agent Oriented Programming. The objective of Agent
Oriented (AO) Technology is to build systems applicable to real world
that can observe and act on changes in the environment. Such systems
must be able to behave rationally and autonomously in completion of
their designated tasks. AO technology is an approach for building
complex real time distributed applications. This technology is built on
belief that a computer system must be designed to exhibit rational goal
directed behavior similar to that of a human being. AO technology
achieves this by building entities called agents which are purposeful
reactive and communication based and sometimes team oriented. There are
different programming methods. Object Oriented Programming is the
successor of Structured programming. Agent oriented programming can be
seen as an improvement and extension of object oriented programming.
Since the word “Programming” is attached it means that both concepts
are close to the programming language and implementation level. The
term “Agent-Oriented Programming” was introduced by Shoham. So this AOP
is a fairly new programming paradigm that supports societal view of
computation. In AOP objects known as agents interact to achieve
individual goals. Agents can be autonomous entities, deciding their
next step without the interference of a user, or they can be
controllable, serving as mediatory between user and another agent. In
AOP programming is performed at abstract level. Agent-Oriented Software
Engineering is being described as a new paradigm for the research field
of Software Engineering. But in order to become a new paradigm for the
software industry, robust and easy-to-use methodologies and tools have
to be developed. The term AOP was suggested by Shoham.
