Agent-oriented architecture for flexible networks
Kaori Sugawara, Takuo Suganuma, Goutam Chakraborty, M. Moser, Tetsuo Kinoshita, Norio Shiratori · 2002
A concept of a flexible network is formalized as a foundation of next generation distributed systems. Considering the requisite properties of flexible networks, we propose an architecture of a flexible network called agent oriented flexible information network (AFIN) model. The model is based on the multi agent paradigm. Furthermore, we focus on a communication network which is a core component of the flexible information network. We propose an agent oriented flexible communication network (AFCN) model and demonstrate with an example the advantages of the proposed architecture of the flexible network.>