Research on agent communication model and its application in electric system

It is important of Agent communication for the reality of coordination, cooperation and consistency in multi-Agent system. In this paper, an architecture of Agent communication is given. In order to decrease the working capacity to maintain the communication protocol, using the KQML as the basic Agent communication language, the paper proposes an Agent communication model based on dynamic modification to communication protocol where a new protocol is added or modified without changing the protocol software's source code. Based on study of the multi-Agent technology and electric system structure characteristics, the paper presents the layered software architecture of electric system and implementation model. Furthermore, according to the difficulty to debug of the communication protocol in actual electric system, the proposed Agent communication model can be used for decreasing the working capacity to maintain the system's communication protocols, and the results show that the model enhances the system's adaptability and stability.

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