Both the mobile and the static agents involved in the mutual coordination process will need some intelligence. That is, they will exhibit cognitions, evaluations, and goals, will make decisions, and perhaps should have the capacity to learn from previous negotiations with other agents. While dynamic integration can be performed without negotiator agents, the advantage in using them comes from better performance. Without negotiator agents all of the transactions in negotiations between central and local components of the AKM would flow over the enterprise network. With them, only the agents are sent from the central AKM component to other components.
Negotiations actually occur on the target rather than the source platform.
When the agent returns to the central AKM component, it brings back only the result of the negotiation. Both use cases and work flows are task sequences within these activities that process, route, and distribute information products, but the connotations of the two terms are somewhat different. The use case concept looks at a task sequence from the point of view of the valued outcome the user will get from a task sequence. Work flow, on the other hand, refers to the automated system constructed to implement a use case, a part of a use case, or a set of related use cases. Agents may be applied in work flow process control areas 3-8.