Design and implementation of a FIPA compliant agent platform in .NET.

Abstract

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.

Specifying Interaction Space Components in a FIPA-ACL Interaction Framework

“…The current version 2.0 of the CAPNET agent platform [10] is empowered with the interaction framework described in this paper. In the CAPNET, each type of interaction component is implemented following an object oriented design.…”

Industrial application integration using the unification approach to agent-enabled semantic SOA

“…The proposed unification model is compared with the existing approaches in the ''related work'' section. To validate the proposed model, we have developed an extension to the Component Agent Platform over .NET Framework (CAPNET) taking full advantage of the .NET technologies permitting to make a step ahead towards the development of industrial applications for open environments [15]. This extension required to meet several specific software engineering objectives: to enable a distributed system to self-configure at runtime initialization; to develop agent templates that enable rapid application development through service composition within the system; to improve the efficiency of businesses through automation of business processes in accordance with the system's overall business objectives.…”

A performance evaluation of three multiagent platforms

“…Only a few of them have their own security mechanisms for controlling agent execution on the MAP. Among them are Semoa (Roth and Jalali-Sohi 2001), which uses filters and agent grants on each node of the MAP, Cougaar (Helsinger et al 2004), which utilizes authentication and encryption, Soma (Bellavista et al 1999), which applies a policy to protect agents from each other, CapNet (Contreras et al 2004), which has a policy manager and agent credentials, and so on.…”