Research and Implementation of XML-based Multi-agent System
Ming Xu · 2006
As a widely used pattern for building open and distributed applications,multi-agent systems are becoming a promising paradigm for research and application.Agent-Oriented Software Engineering becomes more and more mature under the support of the Unified Modeling Language (UML).As a result,several agent-oriented methodologies for de- veloping multi-agent systems have been proposed,with the aim to provide tools,practical methods,and techniques. With the development of Web Service,XML becomes a standard for data organization and exchange.The current works have a little support to XML documents in their multi-agent systems.In this paper,we design a multi-agent system- XMAS based on XML.We use a Rooted Connected Directed Graph to present XML document data model and give XML schema extraction algorithm.We also offer function of parsing XML document aud support to Web Service.Dur- ing the data store process,index optimization makes XMAS have good performance on data retrieval.