Hwang Hee Seok, In Cheol Kim

The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), Vol. 7, No. 11, pp. 3417-3426, Nov. 2000
10.3745/KIPSTE.2000.7.11.3417,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Most of conventional mobile agent systems require that the users or the programmer should give the mobile agent its detail behavioral script for accomplishing the given task. And during its runtime, such mobile agents just behave according to the fixed script given by its user. Therefore it is impossible that conventional mobile agents autonomously build their own plans and execute them in considering their ultimate goals and the dynamic world states. One way to overcome such limitations of conventional mobile agent systems is to develop an intelligent mobile agent system embedding a reactive planner. In this paper, we design both a model of agent mobility and a model of inter-agent communication based upon the representative reactive planning agent architecture called JAM. An then we develop an intelligent mobile agent system with planning capability, IMAS, by implementing additional basic actions for agent moves and inter-agent communication within JAM according to the predefined models. Unlike conventional mobile agents, IMAS agents can be able to adapt their behaviors to the dynamic changes of their environment as well as build their own plans autonomously. Thus IMAS agents can show higher flexibility and robustness than the conventional ones.

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