A framework of reusable structures for mobile agent development

Mobile agents research is clearly aiming towards imposing agent based development as the next generation of tools for writing software. This paper comes with its own contribution to this global goal by introducing a novel unifying framework meant to bring simplicity and interoperability to and among agent platforms as we know them today. In addition to this, we also introduce a set of agent behaviors which, although tailored for and from the area of virtual learning environments, are none the less generic enough to be used for rapid, simple, useful and reliable agent deployment. The paper also presents an illustrative case study brought forward to prove the feasibility of our design.

[1]  Nicholas Carriero,et al.  Coordination languages and their significance , 1992, CACM.

[2]  Y. Lacasse,et al.  From the authors , 2005, European Respiratory Journal.

[3]  Cyril S. Ku,et al.  Design Patterns , 2008, Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering.

[4]  Ralph Johnson,et al.  design patterns elements of reusable object oriented software , 2019 .

[5]  Scott A. DeLoach.  Specifying Agent Behavior as Concurrent Tasks: Defining the Behavior of Social Agents , 2000 .

[6]  Munindar P. Singh,et al.  Readings in agents , 1997 .

[7]  Ioan Salomie,et al.  Mobile Agent Based Solutions for Knowledge Assessment in elearning Environments , 2006, ArXiv.

[8]  Franco Zambonelli,et al.  Agent-Oriented Software Engineering for Internet Applications , 2001, Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies, and Applications.

[9]  M. Wooldridge,et al.  Organisational Abstractions for the Analysis and Design of Multi-Agent Systems , 2000 .

[10]  Franco Zambonelli,et al.  Coordination of Internet Agents , 2001, Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

[11]  Christopher G. Lasater,et al.  Design Patterns , 2008, Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering.

[12]  Tudor Marian,et al.  The CONED project : a WEB-based Virtual University , 2003 .