Application of AI to the Design and Implementation of Airline Reservation System

In this paper, we present an application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the design and implementation of Airline Reservation System (ARS). We provide a multi autonomous agent based framework. Autonomous agents are intelligent enough and provide autonomy, simplicity of communication, computation, and a well developed semantics. The steps of design and implementation are discussed in depth, in particular the agent model, interaction pattern between agents, and ontology are given. We have developed mechanisms for coordination between agents using a language designed by us, which we call Virtual Enterprise Modeling Language (VEML). VEML is a dialect of Java and includes Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML) primitives. We have implemented a multi autonomous agent based system, called Airline Reservation System. We demonstrate efficacy of our system by discussing its salient features.