An agent is a computational entity similar to a software program that can be viewed as perceiving and acting upon its environment and autonomous in its behaviors partially depending on its own experience. An agent on the basis of any key process such as problem solving, planning, decision- making and learning achieves behavior flexibility and rationality. Multi-agent systems are those in which several agents employ their knowledge and coordinate their activities and reason about the processes of coordination. Distributed problem solving systems are those in which the work of ...

Colour matching in leather dyeing is currently done by visual trial and error method. The accuracy of colour matching depends mostly on the experience and judgment of dye-yard technologist and hence in many cases, good colour matching may not be achieved in short time. Though computer aided colour matching has become common place in the textile, paper and paint industries, it still remains only as an academic curiosity in the leather industry. Today, there is no dedicated software available for leather dyeing. The packages available commercially are meant for one of the other...

Software development efforts estimation is the process of predicting the most realistic use of effort required to develop or maintain the software project. The ability to accurately estimate the time and/or cost taken for a project to come in to its successful conclusion is a serious problem for software engineers. The use of a repeatable, clearly defined and well understood software development process has, in recent years, shown itself to be the most effective method of gaining useful historical data that can be used for statistical estimation. These estimates are ultimately influencing...