A tool for agent communication in Mozart/Oz

Author

Suárez-Romero, J.A. ; Alonso-Betanzos, A. ; Guijarro-Berdiñas, B. ; Durán-Sanlés, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of A Coruna, Spain

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

706

Lastpage

710

Abstract

Mozart/Oz is an advanced development platform for intelligent, distributed, powerful and highly functional applications, developed under the European ACCLAIM project. The platform at present lacks a tool for agent communications based on a standard such as ACL-FIPA or KQML. In this work, a tool for agent communication in Mozart/Oz based on KQML has been developed. The communication platform was designed, moreover, as a modular architecture that permits flexibility, high efficiency and inter-operability, which considerably enhances the extensibility of the system. In this paper, this architecture is presented, together with a comparative analysis against two of the most popular agent development platforms in Java, one of which uses KQML (JATLite) and the other, FIPA/ACL (JADE).

Keywords

multi-agent systems; object-oriented programming; software agents; ACL-FIPA standard; European ACCLAIM project; KQML standard; Mozart/Oz platform; agent communication tool; multiagent systems; Application software; Communication standards; Computer architecture; Computer science; Distributed computing; Functional programming; Java; Logic programming; Multiagent systems; Standards development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Agent Technology, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2416-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAT.2005.23

Filename

1565628