Architecture of the multi-agent system as a collaboration of physical devices
W. Yamazaki, H. Nishiyama, Fumio Mizoguchi · 2002
We describe the architecture of a multi-agent system for collaboration of physical devices. A major characteristic of a multi-agent system is collaboration among agents to achieve hierarchical tasks and services. Many multi-agent systems have been proposed, and some of these are used for practical problems. In our target environment, where there are many physical devices such as robots or sensors, many difficulties have occurred because of the physical constraints or changes of the environment. We present an architecture for such a situation and the library named Java Multi Agent Component (JMAC) implemented using a network and the Java object-oriented language to deal with these problems.