The Entity-Operation Model for Practical Multi-entity Deployment

Andrei Olaru, Gabriel Nicolae, Adina Magda Florea

Abstract: In the world of multi-agent system (MAS) frameworks, developers are many times forced into a fixed and reduced array of abstractions, with limited options in expressive modeling of all the components of a MAS. For instance, in JADE, the most popular agent framework, developers are limited to using agents as sole abstraction for all elements of the MAS. These limitations hinder interoperability, the deployment of open, heterogeneous systems, and the use of agents in complex scenarios involving a great variety of elements such as physical devices, context managers, services, and communication infrastructures.