Platform for distributed execution of agents for trusted data collection
Emil Gatial, Zoltán Balogh, Ladislav Hluchý · Procedia Computer Science · 2010
In this article we aim at achieving trusted data collection from heterogeneous distributed sources including legacy systems and human end users. We adopt an agent-like approach where we are able to send agents to host platforms connected to legacy systems. Functionality of agents may vary while we are solving the trust between host platforms, legacy systems and agents. We had not used any existing multi-agent system but we extended an existing production grade service platform called Jini and implemented agents above Jini services. The core of this work is about how we adopted the Jini platform to host agents. We also provide examples about the implementation and integration of the platform in a real world example — a crisis management domain. We present our current achievements and plans concerning the implementation of the proposed platform.