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Supporting FIPA Interoperability for Legacy Multi-agent Systems

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IV (AOSE 2003)

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The conversion of a Multi-Agent System (MAS) into a FIPA-compliant system (i.e. one that adheres to FIPA standards) is important to support interoperability across different MAS. We provide an approach to undertaking such a conversion using FIPA-compliant gateways [7]. This approach avoids the need to re-write the entire legacy system to adhere to FIPA specifications. We propose an architecture for FIPA-compliant gateways that could be connected to a legacy MAS to provide automated FIPA interoperability. The use of the gateways is demonstrated within a Digital Library composed of multi-spectral images of the Earth, as part of the Synthetic Aperture Radar Atlas (SARA).

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  1. School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, P.O.Box 916, Cardiff, CF24 3XF, UK

    Christos Georgousopoulos & Omer F. Rana

  2. Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK

    Anthony Karageorgos

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  1. DISI, University of Trento, 38100, Povo, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Giorgini

  2. Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology, Julius-Albert-Str. 4, D-38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

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Georgousopoulos, C., Rana, O.F., Karageorgos, A. (2004). Supporting FIPA Interoperability for Legacy Multi-agent Systems. In: Giorgini, P., Müller, J.P., Odell, J. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IV. AOSE 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2935. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24620-6_12

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