Over the last couple of years we have been working on the development of mobile agents systems and its application to the areas of telecommunications and network management. This work path produced positive results: a competitive mobile agent platform was built, the run-time benefits of mobile agents were proved, and our industrial partners have developed practical applications that are being i...

Emerging agent-based systems offer a new means of effectively managing knowledge to address complex decision processes, thereby enabling solutions to many real problems that have heretofore appeared intractable. This article presents an overview of expert system and agent technologies, and shows the latter as a powerful extension of artificial intelligence for systems development. To illustrate...

this paper aims to provide first a theoretical discussion of the ontology problem in MAS and second an introduction to how to design and implement knowledge intensive agents with CommonKADS methodology. The paper is organized around three questions: (1) is knowledge a necessary entity in Agent Systems? (2) What is the problem for individual knowledge intensive agents to cooperate? (3) Provide a...

Use of Internet has surged at an exponential rate in recent years. In particular, it has led to many new and innovative applications in the area of ECommerce. In this paper, we introduce an intelligent agent termed AINI, the Artificial Intelligent Solution Humanoid. We also show how current ecommerce technological trends can be enhanced by using AINI. AINI is a chatterbot integrated with 3D ani...

1.1 Introduction This introductory chapter outlines the increasing need for software support in the design and implementation of the rapidly expanding communications industry and argues that the agent-based computing paradigm is the most promising approach with which to address these issues. Communication systems are expanding both in physical terms, with the exponential growth in internet usag...

The design, development, deployment and use of mobile agent in computing is a relatively new paradigm in distributed systems environment. The deployment of mobile agent in creating distributed systems has been shown to help reduce network load, overcome network latency and encapsulate protocols as well as help the dynamic adaptation, and asynchronous and autonomous execution of distributed appl...

The challenges set forth by the ever increasing need for effective resource and application integration on an enteprise-wide scale or even across ad hoc collaborating groups of enterprises demand enormous flexibility from today’s software technologies and infrastructures. The integrated approach of multi-agent systems, combining language philosophy and social sciences ideas with distributed sys...

Ajith Abraham, Dennis Jarvis, Jacquie Jarvis and Lakhmi Jain aNorwegian Center of Excellence for Quantifiable Quality of Service, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, O.S. Bragstads plass 2E, N-7491 Trondheim Norway E-mail: [email protected] bCentre for Intelligent and Networked Systems, CQ University Australia, Rockhampton, Queensland 4702, Australia E-mail: [email protected]...