The Development of Multi-agent System Using Finite State Machine

This paper sets out to develop and create a search agent that can retrieve requested information from two databases; the user will be able to search for a book by inputting variables such as title, author, ISBN and more significantly for this study the price. The system will identify the books requested, where they can be found and will show the cheapest available. SAS will work from the application software and will link to the two databases, the design will allow more databases to be incorporated in the future. Each of the two databases has the same names of the titles however each database may contain a different price. The agent will get the required information quickly, helping the user to find the cheapest and possibly nearest. The agent will connect to the database using the agent interface; there are two agents in the system, known as MAS. These agents collect the required data and send it to the agent handler.