Decentralized and Fault-tolerant FIPA-compliant Agent Framework Based on .Net

Agent Oriented Programming & Software Engineering is being focused to design distributed software systems. More than 100 Agent toolkits for commercial & research purpose are available. Most of the toolkits are based on Java, whereas the focus on .NET platform has recently been started to develop environment to run multi-agent systems. CAPNET was the first .NET based agent platform developed in 2004 where agents could be developed on the application layer to solve distributed problems. The most and the common problem in agent platforms including CAPNET lack the fault tolerance and unavailability of decentralization. In this paper we propose and implement a distributed, decentralized, and fault tolerant agent framework based on the .NET to solve distributed and complex problems. The proposed Agent Platform ACENET (Agent Collaborative Environment based on .NET) follows FIPA specification and works under decentralized architecture