Human-centered virtual machine of problem solving agents, software agents, intelligent agents and objects

Abstract

This paper outlines a human-centered virtual machine of problem solving agents, intelligent agents, software agents and objects. It deals with issues related to high-assurance (e.g. reliability, availability, real-time and others) through design of human-centered system architecture in which technology is a primitive. The human-centered virtual machine is based on a number of human-centered perspectives including the distributed cognition approach. The human-centered virtual machine has been applied in complex data intensive time critical problems like real-time alarm processing and fault diagnosis, air combat simulation and business (decision support).