One of the main challenges of multi-agent systems is to become the main means to support legacy systems interoperability and to make the realization of scalable distributed systems easy. In the last years, however, two technologies, peer-to-peer and service-oriented, have made an impressive progress and seem to have good chances of competing with multi-agent systems for the realization of scala...

This paper presents a framework for mobile agents. The framework is unique among other mobile agent systems in structuring mobile agents hierarchically. The framework provides the notion of agent hierarchy, in which each mobile agent can be a container of other mobile agents. We construct a prototype implementation of this framework. It is built on the Java language and mobile agents are given ...

Norms have an obvious role in the coordinating and predicting behaviours in societies of software agents. Most researchers assume that agents already know the norms of their societies beforehand at design time. Others assume that norms are assigned by a leader or a legislator. Some researchers take into account the acquisition of societies’ norms through inference. Their works apply to closed m...

& In this paper we present the Gaia2JADE process concerning how one can implement a multiagent system with the JADE framework using the Gaia methodology for analysis and design purposes. This process is particularly dedicated to the conversion of Gaia models to JADE code. It is described using the Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM) and extends the one proposed by FIPA for describing ...

In this paper we introduce “Template Global Types” which extend Constrained Global Types to support a more generic and modular approach to define protocols, meant as patterns of events of a given type. Protocols can be used both for monitoring the behavior of distributed computational entities and for driving it. In this paper we show the potential of Template Global Types in the domain of prot...

SECURITY IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR FOR ANY SYSTEM USED IN COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS. DISTRIBUTED AND DYNAMIC SYSTEMS RAISE NEW ISSUES CONCERNING PERFORMANCE, SCALABILITY AND SECURITY MANAGEMENT. DISTRIBUTED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, LEVERAGING AGENT’S AUTONOMY AND MOBILITY, REQUIRE EVEN GREATER ATTENTION TO SECURITY ISSUES. THEREFORE AGENT PLATFORMS MUST PROVIDE POWERFUL AND FLEXIBLE SECURITY MECHANISMS ...

In this paper we describe our efforts to design and implement an agent development framework that has the potential to scale to the size of any underlying network suitable for various ECommerce activities. The main novelty in our framework is it’s capability to allow the development of sophisticated, secured agents which are simple enough to be practical. We have adopted FIPA agent platform ref...

Based on Agent Technology, Service Oriented Architecture and RFID,this paper puts forward a ‘real time paradigm’ traffic congestion control strategy in metropolitan cities. This strategy uses TCL algorithm in order to provide optimal traffic performance evaluation considering the parameter, velocity of vehicles by implementing RMI & SOAP interfaces. This building block of traffic and transporta...