Agent Management System

 

 

 

 

                 

 

 

 

Agent Management System (AMS):

According to Foundation of Intelligent & Physical Agents (FIPA), Agent Management System (AMS) is the most important mandatory component of an Agent Platform. It exerts supervisory control over the platform. It provides white pages services (by name). AMS can either request or can forcefully enforce functions on other agents. It performs following management functions:

 

 

• Registration

  •      All the agents need to be registered with the AMS to get and provide services.

• Deregistration

  •     AMS can deregister agents.

• Search

  •     AMS can search the description of any agent for other agents.

• Deletion

  •     AMS can delete any agent from the platform.

• Modification

  •     AMS can modify the description of any agent.

• AP description

  •     AMS can obtain the description of the platform & AMS manages Agent Life Cycle on behalf of the Agent Platform.

 

 

 

Team Members:

    Two students are currently working on AMS.

        i) Zaheer Abbas Khan          PG Student

        ii) Salman Shahid                Undergraduate Student

 

Current Status:

    All the background study and analysis have been completed and now we are in development phase. We are following Extreme Programming (EP) paradigm. We are also using Unified Modeling Language (UML) to model the system under development. Target date for the completion of this phase is October 25, 2003.

 

Research Issues:

    We are looking to bring fault tolerance in the AMS. Existing systems lack in this regard. Initial design is under progress. After the completion of the design, we have to implement the design within our system and to test the performance of the system.