Improving Current Agent Support Systems: Focus on the Agent Execution System
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Miguel Mira da Silva, José C. Delgado · 1999
We propose in this paper a generic architecture to support, develop, manage, and interact with agentbased applications. In this context, we detail two main components of the architecture, namely: the AES (Agent Execution System) and the AEE (Agent Execution Environment). For both of them we describe their main concepts, data structures and interfaces. We also propose a set of characteristics that we believe will also be present in the next-generation AES, such as: independence between AES and AEE, i.e., support to multi-language agents; execution places hierarchically organized; interaction mechanisms amongst AESs and agents based on the event driven model with potentially abortable events; and management and administration AESs capabilities.