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FIPA-compliant agent platforms must include an Agent Management System, an Agent Communication Channel and a Director Facilitator (DF). The DF is centralized and it administers a register of agents which previously had been registered. Every agent could perform a search for an agent(s) that has specific characteristics or provides a determined service. A centralized DF is a potential point of failure and could cause network overload. The DFs could be distributed through the networked embedded controllers. This paper describes the development of a Distributed Director Facilitator (DDF) which keeps a local register of service providers including the name of the agents and the services provided, this means that every controller could have its own DDF, and agents hosted within a controller could query over the list of service providers.
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Orozco, O.J.L., Lastra, J.L.M. (2007). Distributed Director Facilitator in a Multiagent Platform for Networked Embedded Controllers. In: Mařík, V., Vyatkin, V., Colombo, A.W. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4659. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74481-8_14
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