Using Components for Modeling Intelligent and Collaborative Mobile Agents

Intelligence, collaboration and mobility are the main important features in designing agents for electronic commercial systems. But very few systems permit to implement agents which have all these characteristics. In this paper, we address the problems of designing intelligent collaborative mobile agents. We propose a componential approach for designing and implementing such agents. Our framework architecture for agents dissociates the components expressing the internal behavior of an agent from the components expressing coordination between agents in order to enhance modularity and reusability. We have developed a component description language for easy modeling of componential agent architecture. The component specification is automatically translated into Java source code by our compiler, and then integrated into a mobile agent platform. We have tested our agent development system with the Travel Agency scenario, one of the standard electronic commercial service examples.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: WETICE
• Authors: Min-Jung Woo, Jean-Pierre Briot, Jacques Ferber
• Keywords: Collaborative Mobile Agents, Designing, Emerging Technology, Mobile Agent, WETICE 1998