An Architecture for Multi-Agent COTS Software Integration Systems

Authors:
Guo-Ming Fang;Zeng-Wei Hong;Jim-Min Lin
Affiliations:
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University;Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University;Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University
Venue:
ICPADS '05 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Workshops - Volume 02
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products are increasingly used as software components in large-scale systems. We had proposed an approach for distributed COTS software integration by using the concepts of multi-agent system and distributed scripting mechanism [1]. To describe the experience in the COTS software integration and facilitate the reuse of the software integration procedure, this paper presents a multi-agent architecture for the COTS software integration systems. This architecture is of a three-layered structure and is described with the Agent UML (AUML). Since the interaction and internal processing of agents is clearly described in the proposed architecture, programmers may have a guide to build a software system and implement the protocols and behaviors of agents according to layered description.