Analysis of agent based system in agile methodology

Abstract

Agents are probably the fastest growing area in Information Technology. A software agent is a piece of software that functions as an agent for a user or another program, working autonomously and independently in a particular environment. As agents has ability to migrate to any system, perform the tasks and return the results. The field of software agents is a broad and rapidly developing area of research, which encompasses a diverse range of topics and interests. Huge number of researches is going on by comparing the functional similarities of the Human Immune System for making the agents more adaptable with respect to security. An agent-based system was proposed by using functional commonalities of human Nervous system to adapt themselves to threats such as host attack. The agents become aware of the malicious hosts' attack by learning and coordination is maintained by a Co-Agent to make this system work successfully. The idea of learning and coordination are taken from the Human Nervous system functionality. This system has shown a better functioning in maintaining the system performance by making the agents aware of malicious hosts and by producing limited number of clones.