AgentGateway: a communication tool for multi-agent systems

Authors:
Jason Jen-Yen Chen;Shih-Wei Su
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Jung-Li, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
Venue:
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal - Internet computing
Year:
2003

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Abstract

With the rapid growth of multi-agent systems (MAS), there is a pressing need to communicate between different MAS. Various MAS communication standards have been proposed. However, MAS is usually designed to meet special need, thus making it difficult to follow a standard. This paper presents a tool called AgentGateway trying to solve this problem using a simple, effective approach. The tool translates messages from one MAS to intermediate XML-based messages, which then are translated to messages for another MAS. AgentGateway is scalable, meaning that new MAS can easily join it. Furthermore, it provides transparent and reliable communication. A prototype is developed that shows communication between two MAS, namely, Java Agent Template Lite (JATLite) and OAA, can be done using this approach.