Implementing Trading Agents for Adaptable and Evolutive UI-COTS Components Architectures

Abstract

Most of the complex (e-Business) information systems need to accomplish with the use of open standards. Environmental Management Systems (EMS), for instance, states with the international regulations of the ISO 14000 family, which establish the requirements to be fulfilled by an EMS in order to be accepted as such. One of these requirements concerns the User Interfaces Development. Because of the variety of final users that interact in this sort of complex information system (politicians, technicians, administrators, and so on) and due to a great deal of information (some critical and confidential), it is important to have real and practical scientific/technical proposals in order to build fast and efficient information exploitation systems. The humancomputer interaction (HCI) of these systems need user interfaces that adapt to the users profiles’ habits, and with intelligent software agents that mediate by the users in the search processes, exploitation and decisionmaking tasks. In this work we present a part of the SOLERES-HCI, a framework of the Soleres Project for developing COTS user interfaces by using trading agents. Our studies are being applied for developing advanced EMS and approaching Model-driven engineering techniques to the UI-COTS development.