Olympic agents

  • Authors:
  • Nikolaos Skarmeas;Christos K. K. Loverdos;Katerina Tsiara;Alexandros Bassakidis;Aris Tzoumas;Dimitris Livas

  • Affiliations:
  • Avaca Technologies S.A., Athens, Greece;Dept of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece;National Technical University of Athens, Greece;OTENET S.A., Athens, Greece;OTENET S.A., Athens, Greece;OTENET S.A., Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • TEAA'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Trends in enterprise application architecture
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present an agent-oriented middle-tier architecture deployed during the realisation of the Athens 2004 Olympics results internet broadcasting. The system involved the online processing of messages (XML in nature) and their publishing to the www.athens2004.com internet site. Those messages were containing the Games intermediate and final results and were originated from the Olympic venues. For the accomplishment of this task a number of systems and applications needed to be integrated. Also the domain posed some unique problems regarding the fact that for the first time in the history of the Games a real time approach for broadcasting results was deployed and furthermore due to the reliability and performance requirements of the system. Various enterprise application integration patterns were used in conjunction with an agent oriented design approach. Asynchronous intercommunicating agents were deployed for realizing the architectural components of the system.