A Systems Integration Oriented Multi-agent Hierarchy Cooperation Model

The cooperation among agents is an important way to realize dynamic systems integration. In order to implement the integration, the hierarchy cooperation model in this paper is implemented with horizontal cooperation model combined with vertical one. In the horizontal cooperation model, centralized control agent in this model executes scripts to control the cooperation among agents. It can improve the flexibility of the systems integration. While in the vertical cooperation model, an extension of the contract net protocol using conversational method, named CECNP (the conversational extended contract net protocol) is introduced, which can improve the intelligence of the systems integration. The hierarchy cooperation model is applied to the agent-based systems integration tool (ASIT), and it takes the border and coast defense simulation system (BCDSS) as a test case. The various modules of BCDSS have been integrated successfully and the validity of this model has been proved in ASIT.