The aim of this paper is to describe the design and implementation of an agent platform called CAPNET (Component Agent Platform based on .NET) that is fully compliant with the specifications of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and implemented as 100% managed code in the .NET framework. The tools for the platform configuration and administration are presented and a case study is provided that shows the usability of the CAPNET in industrial and mission critical scenarios.
Resumen La ingeniería del software orientado a agentes requiere el desarrollo de herramientas computacionales que ayuden a modelar las interacciones que se realizan entre agentes. En este artículo se describe el desarrollo de una herramienta que facilita la especificación de los atributos necesarios para configurar las capacidades de interacción de agentes que utilizan el lenguaje FIPA-ACL. Estas capacidades se agrupan en el concepto de espacio de interacción. La herramienta está diseñada para formar parte del ambiente de desarrollo de la plataforma CAPNET, permitiendo a los programadores de aplicaciones, la creación de agentes de una manera sistemática, y al mismo tiempo, asegurando la compatibilidad con la arquitectura de interacción de dicha plataforma.
Abstract. Despite the acceptance of FIPA-ACL as a standard for agent communications, there exist a gap between its specification and infrastructures to support interactions among agents. The hypothesis we study in this paper is that interaction space components must be specified and described in depth by taking into account an explicit six-layered FIPA-ACL communication model. Based on this model, generic components can be described for a FIPA-ACL interaction framework. An implementation for interaction components is given within the CAPNET agent platform in an integrated way with the agent interaction architecture. Working with interaction space capabilities for engineering agent interactions is pointed out through a MAS example.
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