Seminário de ES:
Agents and Components: Comparison and Perspectives
Jean-Pierre Briot
LIP6, Paris & PUC-Rio

Abstract
Agents and components, although developed independently, are both approaches aimed at designing more composable and adaptable software. The first part of the talk will compare them along three dimensions: action selection flexibility, coupling flexibility and abstraction level. Then in the second part of the talk, we will point out a fe