Intelligent agent-based systems are regarded as the promising technology in
bridging the gap between the physical world and cyber-applications. In spite
of the rising demands for reusable information systems; current designs are
still insufficient in providing efficient reusable mechanisms for system
design. One of the major problems hinders the development of information
reuse in most traditional systems is the lack of the autonomous character
among system modules or subsystems. The emergence of agent technology is
able to solve the problem plaguing many traditional systems. Existing agent
design models create an agent as a sole system with built-in domain-specific
capabilities. However, this design pattern causes several problems while
matching and updating agents? capabilities due to the built-in design
pattern in these models decreases agents? extensibility, flexibility and
reusability. In this paper we introduce a novel design for agent-based
systems, which is able to provide an efficient design pattern for improving
the reusability, extensibility and flexibility of agent design. The novel
agent capability design offers an open and flexible structure; and
implements several practical algorithms that can improve the system
performance. An experimental program based on several practical cases has
been developed to evaluate the performance of the proposed design. The
empirical results reveal the efficiency of the new agent design pattern.
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