Control of Agent Based Systems (CoABS) Grid

Abstract : The Control of Agent Based Systems (COABS) Grid provides the middleware that enables dynamic interoperability of distributed, heterogeneous, objects, services, and multi-agent systems. It has been used to produce militarily relevant technical integration experiments where legacy systems and multi-agent systems were integrated to solve real-world problems. The CoABS Grid features flexible run-time communications and dynamic registration and discovery of relevant participants. It is adaptive and robust, with the system evolving to meet changing requirements without reconfiguring the network. The CoABS Grid integrated heterogeneous agent-based systems, object-based applications, and legacy systems. It includes a method-based application programming interface to register agents, advertise their capabilities, discover agents based on their capabilities, and send messages between agents. The Grid also provides a logging service, a security service, and remote event notifications.