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Title:
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AN ARCHITECTURE FOR AN AGENT-BASED COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS |
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Author(s):
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Ebrahim Alhashel , Masoud Mohammadian , Bala Balachandran , Dharmendra Sharma |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-87-4 |
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Editors:
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António Palma dos Reis |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Agent-based software, multi-agent systems, cooperative software system, software engineering, ontology, semantic web. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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219 |
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Last Page:
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224 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Many agent-based software architectures have been proposed, with each focusing on a specific agent approach or
designed toward a specific applications domain. This multiplicity of approaches reflects the interest in designing an ideal
agent architecture that allows the agents to behave autonomously and cooperatively.
This research first studies the existing agent-based architectures encompassed in the agents development methodologies
and agents development tools. Then an original agent-based cooperative architecture called Agent Team Maker
(ATM) is proposed. ATM consists of five layers: User agent, Services finder, Team management, Professional agent, and
Skill agent. The services in this context refer to any application that can perform a unit of work toward the achievement
of the goal. In order to make the services dynamically identifiable, we develop a semantic schema for each service in the
system. Web services ontology language (OWL), resources framework (RDF), and extensible mark-up language (XML)
are used consecutively in the implementation of the services semantic schema and data representation. A case study
(travel agent system) is used to illustrate the implementation of ATM, the result is presented and the future works are
discussed. |
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