BlueJADE – A service for managing software agents
In this paper, we describe our research into transforming an agent platform into a manageable service that can be managed by a modern application server. This is a key part of industrializing agent technology, that is, integrating agent technology with other mainstream web server, application server, DB, communication and security technologies, to produce a scalable, robust platform for intelligent applications of various kinds.
This document provides the motivation and overview of the work done to enable HP’s Bluestone Application Server (HP-AS) [1] to manage an agent service using the Java Agent DEvelopment Framework (JADE) [2]. Internal to HP, and in this document, we use the term BlueJADE to reflect this technology combination. BlueJADE aims to provide an industrial grade agent environment, which can be managed as any other application in an application server, and comply to both the FIPA Abstract architecture and the FIPA 2000 specifications. We believe that BlueJADE is a major milestone towards the success of agent technology deployment.
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