Dealing with interoperability for agent-based services
Patricia Charlton, David Bonnefoy, Nicolas Lhuillier · 2001
Interoperability problems occur when developing agent systems with a strong notion of autonomy while interacting with other agents. The agent platform has become the intelligent distributed operating system for agent applications and therefore the support of much of the interoperability between agents will be through the platforms themselves. With the possibility of inter- platform interoperability comes support for open services that goes beyond current open agent architectures. This paper looks at the design issues of interoperability that need to be addressed on both the communication and application levels. It identifies solutions to some of these issues and defines a set of components, which are implemented and tested as a toolkit, in order to support Open Agent Service Architecture development and deployment.