The Potential of Agent Architectures - DZone IoT

Agents have existed already for a long time. In software engineering, they are small distributed applications that demonstrate some form of autonomous behavior. Early examples are monitoring agents, web crawlers, and chat bots. Also, today's trends in distributed and intelligent architectures can be viewed from this existing Agent perspective. Software Agents could be viewed as an evolution of, or an addition to, the (Micro)Services that are underpinning these trends.