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

Abstract

The Multi-Agent Oriented Programming (MAOP) paradigm provides abstractions to model and implements entities of agents, as well as of their organisations and environments. In recent years, researchers have started to explore the integration of MAOP and the resource-oriented web architecture (REST). This paper further advances this line of research by presenting an ongoing work on jacamo-rest, a resource-oriented web-based abstraction for the multi-agent programming platform JaCaMo. Jacamorest takes Multi-Agent System (MAS) interoperability to a new level, enabling MAS to not only interact with services or applications of the World Wide Web but also to be managed and updated in their specifications by other applications. To add a developer interface to JaCaMo that is suitable for the Web, we provide a novel conceptual perspective on the management of MAOP specification entities as web resources. We tested jacamo-rest using it as a middleware of a programming interface application that provides modern software engineering facilities such as continuous deployments and iterative software development for MAS. * This study was partially funded by Project AG-BR of Petrobras and by the program PrInt CAPES-UFSC "Automação 4.0" and partially funded by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP).

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“…Dialogflow sends the user’s request to our multi-agent system. To receive those requests, our system uses an integration between JaCaMo and Dialogflow called Dial4JaCa ( , accessed on 2 March 2022) [ 30 ], which extends the open-source JaCaMo Rest project ( , accessed on 2 March 2022) [ 31 ]. It is represented by the , in Figure 3 .…”