Priority-Based Message Scheduling for the Multi-agent System in Ubiquitous Environment

In the multi-agent system frequent interactions among the agents are inevitable in order to provide timely high quality services. In this paper we introduce a new scheduling service model improving the performance of communication in the multi-agent system. It assigns priority to the messages according to the weight of formalized ACI message and the number of message exchanges between the agents. An experiment reveals that the proposed approach allows smaller processing time per message and turnaround time than the scheduling with the existing JADE platform.

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