Developing New Services for the Automotive Industry using Matrix

This progress report explores how multi-agent systems can be applied to the automotive industry in order to create an intercommunication platform. Our proposal called MATRIX (Multiagent Architecture for TRaffic Information eXchange) provides the basis for information exchange between cars (Car2Car) and between cars and infrastructural elements (Car2Infrastructure). In this work we also discuss how the most prominent technologies in both areas (JADE and OSGi) can be integrated in order to achieve new functionalities and security improvements in present cars.