An infrastructure for managing and controlling agent cooperation

This work presents an infrastructure for managing and controlling agents' cooperation (IMCAC). The goal of IMCAC is to realize the distributed service integration over the Internet. Regarding providing service as the central task, IMCAC creates a transparent integration to make the easy use of every kind of service in heterogeneous, open and dynamic network environment. This work expatiates on IMCAC from three basic aspects: explicitness of semantics for information content, the core control mechanism of agent cooperation, and individualization for adjusting agent service. Then we discuss application of IMCAC by a test. The paper concludes that IMCAC will become integration mechanism of various agents cooperation techniques.