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AGNES PROJECT
An experimental Mobile Agent Platform

Description

AGNES is a PoC mobile agent system based on GNU/EDMA and developed to test run-time update solutions and to provide a base system to work on evolvable systems.

The AGNES Mobile Agent System (MAS), uses GNU/EDMA components as agents so, an AGNES agent is a GNU/EDMA component able to move throughout a set of machines on a network.

Strictly speaking, only objects moves not the associated code, however the idea is to use the GNU/EDMA features to provide a system able to automatically install any component required. This is the EDNA system. You can find a technical report here.

Additionally, when GNU/EDMA fully supported scripting languages code migration will also be an option for the agents.

AGNES agents moves among agencies (MASIF nomenclature), which offers services to them in order to allow agents to carry out their work. Currently, only a very limited set of services are available in the distribution.

One of the use cases I'm considering is what I have called Pervasive Widgets. You can read a bit more about this here, and check the video on the left.

Note that this is alpha software and some features could not work right. You can download and try it (check the side bar on the right) but do not expect too much. Nevertheless the code will dramatically change when I get some spare time. Note also that the current version needs GNU/EDMA 0.18.2 that is only available at CVS.

Features and Status

The AGNES MAS has the following features:

Screenshots

See the HELLO_AGENT moving through three hosts, and the HERMITs demo running on an OMAP Zoom2

To launch this example run the following commands, each one in a different xterm:

$ agnes_server2 SOCKET_TCP://localhost:5000
$ agnes_server2 SOCKET_TCP://localhost:5001
$ agnes_server2 SOCKET_TCP://localhost:5002
$ launch_agent HELLO_WORLD Holly \
">SOCKET_TCP://localhost:5000,>SOCKET_TCP://localhost:5001,>SOCKET_TCP://localhost:5002"

Download

Agnes 0.1.1 [tar.gz] 467Kb

Dependencies:

Related Projects and Links

Other Mobile Agent Systems

 · Gypsy
 · Fargo
 · AgentSpace
 · Concordia
 · Grasshopper
 · Messengers
 · MOA
 · Tacoma
 · Voyager

Specifications

 · MASIF: Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facility
 · FIPA: Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents

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Please send comments to dmartin AT uvigo DOT es

 

 
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