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INTRODUCTIONThe chapter presents an introduction to the research work carried out as part of this thesis. Itfirst discusses a current scenario in software development and elaborates on the need for a newapproach to evolving software development. The chapter provides an introduction to evolvingsoftware development which is developed using the software component: Agent, which is thetopic of the research work. It discusses the situation where it becomes necessary thatsoftware evolves itself for handling unforeseen problems and events. The chapter definesan entity ¿Agent¿ which is the main entity of evolving software development. It alsodiscusses the properties of an agent and the working of an agent. A detailed discussion of the literaturesurvey on agents and their architecture is presented here. The literature survey also addressesapplication domains that can be developed using agent technology.