AFDM: A UML-Based Methodology for Engineering Intelligent Agents.

Agents are a potential technology with many applications. It is urgent to develop appropriate methodologies for the development and deployment of agent-oriented applications. This paper presents Agent Factory Development Methodology (AFDM), a cohesive methodology, to support the development of agent-oriented applications. On the other hand agent cloning is considered one of the possible approaches to avoid system overloading. In later sections of this paper, agent cloning is designed and implemented as an example through the AFDM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]