The consulting arm was formed to provide customers with support in incorporating intelligent agent capabilities into their products or systems. In the current competitive market where software is crucial to the success of a company, need to deliver innovative software solutions that meet the level of quality and usability consumers demand. This can only be achieved if the company has ready access to a pool of top-class software engineers and project managers.

AOS has very experienced software architects and managers, as well as talented designers and programmers. AOS regards its staff as its primary asset, and it only employs people of the highest quality. The core AOS team has worked together for 15 years, and has a great deal of experience in extracting requirements and interacting with clients towards the specification of architecture, design and infrastructure.

All development at AOS is carried out using our internal software development processes, which follow industrial best practice. AOS is willing to and capable of providing additional documentation, testing and support services beyond those demanded by our quality procedures. AOS is experienced at managing software development across multiple sites and with multiple stakeholders providing requirements, domain expertise and technical input.

AOS has technical writers with excellent skills and experience, and all AOS documentation is edited externally for an additional level of quality assurance. AOS has experience producing all kinds of documentation, including online manuals and help, tutorials and practicals.

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Technical Expertise

	advanced computing (autonomous software agents, scheduling);
	language expertise (Java, C++, C, Delphi, Prolog, Lisp, XML, HTML, WML);
	platform expertise (Solaris, Linux, Windows, Mac OS and others);
	databases (relational and object-oriented); and
	computer connectivity (networks, transport, protocols).

Application Areas

	telecommunications (network management, wireless data services in SMS and WAP);
	internet services (intelligent web applications);
	decision-support systems (procurement, medical diagnosis);
	manufacturing (flexible holonic control systems);
	air traffic management;
	e-commerce;
	and
	product support and help desk.

Enabling Technology

AOS's flagship product, JACK™ is a Java-based agent oriented programming environment. Agent oriented programming facilitates the implementation of autonomous computational entities, or agents that exhibit rational decision-making The autonomous nature of these agents makes them ideally suited to solving problems of a distributed and real-time nature. This technology includes state-of-the-art intelligent server functionality (JACK Webbot), providing intelligent back-end capability for web-based and wireless applications.

JACK Webbot is the only product that uses intelligent agent technology to provide content delivery. Wireless display media place tight constraints on what should be delivered to the user and when it should be delivered. By automatically adapting to the user's requirements, JACK Webbot provides the user with a highly-tailored interaction.