Design and Development of Visual Management Agent for Fipa Compliant Multi-Agnet System

Abstract

Multi-Agent systems are one of the important emerging technologies that provide collaborative environment for a community of social agents for the provision of continuous and dynamic services. Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents or simply FIPA is one of the standard governing bodies, which provide an abstract architecture known as FIPA specifications [1] for multi-agent system developers to follow. Agent Management System (AMS), Agent Communication Language (ACL), and Message Transport Service (MTS) are its mandatory components. At NUST-COMTEC we are developing a FIPA compliant multi-agent system called Scalable Fault Tolerant Agent Grooming Environment (SAGE).

Visual Management Agent (VMA) is responsible for providing • Human System Interaction (HSI). • Visual Management. • Visual Monitoring (Debugging).

Visual Management Agent (VMA) is an agent that offers a graphical user interface (GUI) to platform administration. The agent offers many services that show the state of the Agent Platform and it also offers various tools to request administrative actions from the AMS agent, the DF agent and are also be used to debug and test applications.