@article {dobrowiecki_will_1997,
	title = {Will measuring instruments turn into agents?},
	journal = {Instrumentation and Measurement, {IEEE} Transactions on},
	volume = {46},
	number = {4},
	year = {1997},
	pages = {991{\textendash}995},
	abstract = {The implications of agent based software engineering and Internet environment in the measurement practice are investigated. {{\textquotedblleft}Measurement-minded{\textquotedblright}} expert agents and instrument-as-agent approaches offer numerous advantages. It would require, however, a reconsideration of certain properties of the measuring equipment and the role of the system controller},
	keywords = {artificial intelligence, computerised instrumentation, distributed estimation, expert agents, expert {systems, Internet} environment, knowledge based systems, measurement, software engineering},
	issn = {0018-9456},
	doi = {10.1109/19.650814},
	author = {T.P. Dobrowiecki and F. Louage and T. M{\'e}sz{\'a}ros and G. Roman and B. Pataki}
}
