Jason-RS, A Collaboration Between Agents and an IoT Platform

Abstract

In this article we start from the observation that REST services are the most used as tools of interoperability and orchestration in the Internet of Things (IoT). But REST does not make it possible to inject artificial intelligence into connected objects, ie it cannot allow autonomy and decision-making by the objects themselves. To define an intelligence to a connected object, one can use a Beleive Desire Intention agent (BDI an intelligent agent that adopts human behavior) such as Jason Agentspeak. But Jason AgentSpeak does not guarantee orchestration or choreography between connected objects. There are platforms for service orchestration and choreography in IoT, still the interconnection with artificial intelligence needs to be built. In this article, we propose a new approach called Jason-RS. It is a result of pairing Jason BDI agent with the web service technologies to exploit the agent capacity as a service, Jason-RS turn in Java SE and it does not need any middleware. The architecture that we propose allows to create the link between Artificial Intelligence and Services choreography to reduce human intervention in the service choreography. In order to validate the proposed approach, we have interconnected the Iot BeC 3 platform and the REST agent (Jason-RS). The decision-making faculty offered by Jason-RS is derived from the information sent by the objects according to the different methods of REST (GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE) that Jason-RS offers. As a result, the objects feed the inter-agent collaborations and decision-making inside the agent. Finally, we show that Jason-RS allows the Web of Objects to power complex systems such as an artificial intelligence responsible for processing data. This performance is promising.

Towards Jacamo-rest: A Resource-Oriented Abstraction for Managing Multi-Agent Systems

“…Recent works have already explored the intersection of the Web, REST, and MAOP [Ciortea et al 2018], focusing on the integration of MAS and Web abstractions to facilitate run-time interaction between MAS and traditional web applications. In particular, web service abstractions that allow applications to interact with Jason agents [Rafalimanana et al 2020], as well as with agents written in AS-TRA [W. Collier et al 2019], have been developed. While the MAS integration with other applications is broadly covered in the literature, the support for the development and run-time modification of MAS specifications and code has so far not been considered.…”

“…Figure3. Jacamo-rest's collections of endpoints and software layers viewRafalimanana et al 2020, W. Collier et al 2019; i.e., the works propose ways for agents and multi-agent systems to interact at run-time via the Web. The purpose of RESTful APIs is, in this context, the provision and update of application state.…”