Using peer-to-peer protocols to enable implicit communication in a BDI agent architecture

  • Authors:
  • Klaus Fischer;Jörg P. Müller;Fabian Stäber;Thomas Friese

  • Affiliations:
  • DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany;Dept. of Computer Science, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany and Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Information and Communications, München, Germany;Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Information and Communications, München, Germany;Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Information and Communications, München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ProMAS'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The objective of the research described in this paper is to extend current agent platforms in order to provide both explicit, message-based and implicit, document-based communication and coordination within a uniform framework, and to make this unified framework available for the agent-oriented design and enactment of business processes. This is achieved by interfacing a BDI agent platform with an underlying peer-to-peer (P2P) platform, where the P2P framework is used to virtualize certain sections of the belief sets of the BDI agents; after a review of existing approaches to integrate multiagent with P2P concepts, a prototype technical realization is presented using two state-of-the art platforms: the Jack BDI agent platform and the P2P Business Resource Management Framework (BRMF) platform.