An Integrated System for Disabled People Developed with the Agent Platform PANGEA

General information

Authors:
Carolina ZATO, Gabriel VILLARRUBIA, Javier BAJO, Juan Manuel CORCHADO

DOI:
10.14201/ADCAIJ2014266577

Volume:
Regular Issue 2 (3), 2013

Keywords:

Open multi-agent system; Virtual organizations; Agent platform; IRC standard; Distributed systems; Web services

New trends in multi-agent systems call for self-adaptation and high dynamics, hence the new model of open MAS or virtual organization of agents. However, as existing agent platforms are not yet equipped to support this behavior, it is necessary to create new systems and mechanisms to facilitate the development of these new architectures. This article presents PANGEA, an agent platform to develop open multi-agent systems, specifically those including organizational aspects such as virtual agent organizations. The platform allows the integral management of organizations and offers tools to the end user. Additionally, it includes a communication protocol based on the IRC standard, which facilitates implementation and remains robust even with a large number of connections. The introduction of a CommunicationAgent and a Sniffer make it possible to offer Web Services for the distributed control of interaction. In order to test PANGEA, an integral system was developed to help the disabled, gathering a set of easily deployable and integrated services under a single architecture.

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