Implementing Agent Interoperability between Language-Heterogeneous Platforms

Author

Cabri, Giacomo ; Domnori, Elton ; Orlandini, Davide

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ing. dell´´Inf., Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

27-29 June 2011

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

34

Abstract

One of the most important feature of a MAS (Multi-Agent System) is the cooperation and the coordination among agents placed in distributed environments. Due to the high heterogeneity of agents and platforms, interoperability has become a key issue for the use of MASs in academic and industrial fields. Several approaches to interoperability proposed so far are based on the JAVA technology exploiting the homogeneity of the programming language and technology. In this paper we introduce a new middleware that enables the interoperability among agents execution in different platforms, implemented with different programming languages. Our approach is FIPA-IEEE compliant and programming-language independent.

Keywords

Java; middleware; multi-agent systems; open systems; software agents; FIPA-IEEE compliant; JAVA technology; agent interoperability; distributed environments; language-heterogeneous platforms; middleware; multiagent system; programming-language independent; Context; Data structures; Java; Middleware; Proposals; Protocols; AgentService; FIPA; JADE; interoperability; software agents;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), 2011 20th IEEE International Workshops on

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

1524-4547

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0134-4

Electronic_ISBN

1524-4547

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WETICE.2011.13

Filename

5990018