FIPA-compliant MAS development for road traffic management with a Knowledge-Based approach : the TRACK-R agents

In this paper, we describe our work in the design of agent-based systems using available standards and our previous experiences in the development of knowledge-based applications in the domain of road traffic management. Our main goal in this first step has been to join the development of FIPA compliant agents with the use of knowledge-based techniques during design and a logic programming language. The result of this work has been reflected on the TRACK-R agents, responsible of a geographical area that has to communicate in order to provide traffic routes recommendations for humans or other agents. Currently we have three agents running that allows a simple human request for recommendation as well as other TRACK-R agents requests. This work has been funded by the proyects DAMMAD (TIC20001370-C04) and Agentcities.NET (IST-2000-28384).