Multi-agent systems: overview of a new paradigm for distributed systems

Author

Ahmad, H. Farooq

Author_Institution

Commun. Technol., Sendai, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

107

Abstract

Novel opportunities and challenges are emerging in the near future, such as Electronic commerce (e-commerce), due to the convergence of computers and telecommunication. Successful e-commerce requires rapid adaptation and excellent timing for service providers and users with guaranteed quality of service. Agent based technologies represent one of the most promising technological paradigm for distributed service system to meet these requirements. The aim of the current paper is to briefly review the agent systems basic architecture, with emphasize on agent communication languages. Two most popular agent communication languages, namely FIPA ACL and KQML have been briefly reviewed. The paper summarizes standardization activity of the agent system from the perspective of FIPA and OMG reference models. The relationship between FIPA and OMG has been given with a short discussion.

Keywords

Internet; electronic commerce; information services; multi-agent systems; quality of service; FIPA ACL; FIPA reference models; KQML; OMG reference models; agent communication languages; distributed service system; distributed systems; e-commerce; multi-agent systems; quality of service; service providers; technological paradigm; Business; Distributed databases; Electronic commerce; Humans; Mission critical systems; Multiagent systems; Quality of service; Telecommunication computing; Timing; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Assurance Systems Engineering, 2002. Proceedings. 7th IEEE International Symposium on

ISSN

1530-2059

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1769-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HASE.2002.1173110

Filename

1173110