Session:

Intelligent Mobile Agents in Peer -to- Peer Networks
Sunday, February 29, 2004, 17.15 – 17.35

Session Chair:
Vice Chair:

Jorge Marx-Gomez
Daniel Lübke

Paper Title:

XML Communicating Agents in the Rule Based Distributed Event System

Author(s):

O.K. Sahingoz, Computer Engineering Dept., Airforce Academy, Istanbul, Turkey
N. Erdogan, Computer Engineering Dept, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Abstract:

Efficient agent based systems require flexible Agent Communication Languages, such as FIPA ACL, to define the exchange of structured and unstructured information between agent components of the system. The problem of encapsulating semantically rich data, which are to be exchanged between users, applications or agents, can be tackled by XML (Extensible Markup Language). XML is proving to be the backbone of open, platform-neutral data solutions. Therefore, we investigate how agent technologies and Agent Communication Languages can be integrated with XML. This paper discusses relevant technology issues related to the integration task. A rule based distributed event system scenario is outlined to demonstrate the technologies and their integration.