Agent Factory Micro Edition: A Framework for Ambient Applications

Agent Migration and Communication in WSNs

“…The following metrics were used to evaluate the footprint and maintainability of the wireless migration and message transport services: McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity, NonCommenting Source Statements (NCSS), and independent Jar size 4 . The results are presented in Table 1.…”

“…The wireless message transport service discussed here differs significantly from the original message transport service [4], which was developed for mobile phones. The Sun SPOT motes communicate using the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, including the base-station approach to sensor networking.…”

“…Ubiquitous computing and its constituent technologies of mobile devices and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) challenge this assumption. One framework that seeks to address the constraints and heterogeneity of AmI environments is Agent Factory Micro Edition (AFME) [3] [4]. AFME is a minimised footprint intelligent agent platform that was originally developed for use with 3G mobile phones.…”

Towards Pervasive Intelligence: Reflections on the Evolution of the Agent Factory Framework

“…In 2005, Muldoon developed a minimised footprint version of Agent Factory that facilitated the development and deployment of intentional agents for highly constrained mobile and ubiquitous devices [35,34,33]. This version of Agent Factory was referred to as Agent Factory Micro Edition (AFME).…”

Fuzzy-set-based decision making through energy-aware and utility agents within wireless sensor networks

“…However in recent years, the practical deployment of intelligent agents on resource-limited devices has been the subject of exploratory research, and a number of frameworks have been described in the literature. Well-known examples include 3APL-M (Koch et al 2005), Agilla (Fok et al 2005) and Agent Factory Micro Edition (AFME) (Muldoon et al 2006). In the case of AFME, agents subscribe to the BDI paradigm.…”