XML based Safe and Scalable Multi-Agent Development Framework

In this paper we describe our efforts to design and implement an agent development framework that has the potential to scale to the size of any underlying network suitable for various ECommerce activities. The main novelty in our framework is it’s capability to allow the development of sophisticated, secured agents which are simple enough to be practical. We have adopted FIPA agent platform reference Model as backbone for implementation along with XML for agent Communication and Java Cryptographic Extension and architecture to realize the security of communication information between agents. The advantage of our architecture is its support of agents development in different languages and Communicating with each other using a more open standard i.e. XML Keywords— Agent, Agent Development Framework, Agent Coordination, Security

[1]  Gheorghe Tecuci.  Building Intelligent Agents: An Apprenticeship, Multistrategy Learning Theory, Methodology, Tool and Case Studies , 1998 .

[2]  Veljko M. Milutinovic,et al.  Architecture of the Mobile Environment for Intelligent Genetic Search and Proxy Caching , 2001, Telecommun. Syst..

[3]  이필규.  [서평]「Agent Sourcebook : A Complete Guide to Desktop,Internet,and Intranet Agents」 , 1998 .

[4]  Hartmut Vogler,et al.  An approach for mobile agent security and fault tolerance using distributed transactions , 1997, Proceedings 1997 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

[5]  Peter Norvig,et al.  Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach , 1995 .

[6]  Yun Peng,et al.  Agent communication languages: the current landscape , 1999, IEEE Intell. Syst..

[7]  Yan Zhang,et al.  A safe mobile agent system for distributed intrusion detection , 2003, Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (IEEE Cat. No.03EX693).

[8]  Jizhou Sun,et al.  TJIDS: an intrusion detection architecture for distributed network , 2003, CCECE 2003 - Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Toward a Caring and Humane Technology (Cat. No.03CH37436).

[9]  L. Foner.  What''s an Agent, Anyway? A Sociological Case Study. MIT Media Lab , 1997 .

[10]  C DuTimon,et al.  Mobile agents in distributed network management , 2003 .

[11]  Rüdiger Zarnekow,et al.  Application Areas for Intelligent Software Agents , 1998 .

[12]  Chengqi Zhang,et al.  MA-IDS Architecture for Distributed Intrusion Detection using Mobile Agent , 2004 .