Communications of the ACM
Logic for Problem Solving
An Adaptive Agent Oriented Software Architecture
PRICAI '98 Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Topics in Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Integration of Distributed Database by Multiple Agents
DS '98 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Discovery Science
Design and Implementation of a Programmable Coordination Architecture for Mobile Agents
TOOLS '99 Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A Framework for the Exchange and Installation of Protocols in a Multi-agent System
CIA '01 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents V
Large Scale Peer-to-Peer Experiments with Virtual Private Community (VPC) Framework
CIA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents VI
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In this paper, we propose a flexible multi-agent model, called Field Reactor Model (FRM) for open system environment such as ubiquitous computing. FRM unifies indirect communication with an abstract medium and pattern-oriented message communication. The collaboration method among agents is pattern directed message collaboration that yields functional relations among patterns of agents. The pattern directed message collaboration enables agents on heterogeneous platforms to create collaboration each other and supports to change collaboration dynamically. We describe how to apply the computation scheme originated from dataflow to the pattern directed message collaboration. Also, we show the flexibility of FRM with an example of file format translations.