Distributed System Integration in Agent Grid Collaborative Environment

Grid and agent communities both develop concepts and mechanisms for open distributed systems, albeit from different perspectives. How to apply the agent technology in Grid infrastructure to facilitate distributed system integration becomes an interest topic in recent years. In this paper, we investigate the issue and present an agent grid intelligent platform, called AGrIP, from the implementation point of view. AGrIP is based on the FIPA-compliant multi-agent environment MAGE and has four different layers, which apply the agent interface services for interaction and communication. Up to date, it has been applied to several practice projects as the robust infrastructure in which Agent Grid Based City Emergency Inter-Act Project will be detailedly expounded in the paper.