摘要
An increasing number of computer systems are being viewed in terms of autonomous agents．Most people believe that agent-oriented approach is well suited to designing and building complex systems． Yet， to date， little effort had been devoted to discussing the advantages of agent-oriented approach as a mainstream software engineering paradiam．Here both of this issues and the relation between object-oriented and agentoriented will be argued．We describe an agent-oriented methodology and provide a quote for designing a auction system．
