An Agent-based Middleware for Environmental Information Management
Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Andreas Solsbach, Pericles A. Mitkas, Jorge Marx Gómez · Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling · 2005
Abstract: Managing environmental information is a demanding task, which en-gages serious amounts of efforts by environmental scientists working in public in-stitutes or the industrial sector. In order to reduce the workload required and dis-engage environmental scientists from trivial tasks, as data transformation and re-viewing, we developed an Agent-based Middleware for Environmental Informa-tion Management (AMEIM for short). Our approach, presented in this paper, util-izes software agents that undertake environmental data management tasks. Soft-ware agents in AMEIM are capable to fuse and preprocess environmental data. Taking under account the requirements of the application domain, AMEIM's core functionalities, the agent-based architecture and the platform developed in Java are detailed. The AMEIM system is fully customizable and follows an extendable architecture. Also, reasoning capabilities can be incorporated into AMEIM agents for supporting decision-support features.