Title | An Agent Oriented Hotel Information System |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | Robles A, Noriega P, Cantú F |
Editor | Decker KS, Sichman JSimão, Sierra C, Castelfranchi C |
Conference Name | Proceedings of 8th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 20009) |
Edition | 2009 |
Publisher | International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems |
Conference Location | Budapest, Hungary |
Pagination | 1415-1416 |
Date Published | 10/05/09 |
ISBN Number | 978-0-9817381-7-8 |
Abstract | The paper reports the experience of converting a large legacy hotel information system (1.2million lines of code), into an agent-intensive one, INNSIST, now in operation with more than one thousand employees interacting with the system daily. The conversion is based on a framework –conceptual and computational models, plus software and methodology– that extends the notions of electronic institutions (EI). The premise is to have an institutional prescription of how a corporation is intended to work and having an electronic institution harness the components of a conventional IS so that these operate as prescribed. The paper gives a sketch of the extended EI framework, reports on the implementation process and discusses the advantages of the approach discussed. |