JIAC Systems and JADE Agents Communication

Many Mobile Agent Systems (MAS) have been developed, but with diverse proprietary Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This propagation of incompatible APIs implies the complexity of communication and interaction inter-platforms. In a heterogeneous network, an agent may also need to cooperate with agents developed for different platforms. Furthermore, a group of cooperating agents and their interacting pattern are usually dynamic and are unknown at the design stage. As a result, an open and flexible communication and interaction model is needed to ensure the interoperability among mobile agents and mobile agent systems. Agent communication and interaction are achieved through agent communication mechanisms provided by agent systems. Agent communication mechanisms vary considerably from one agent system to another agent system. Our work was to find a suitable solution to the communication between both JIAC and JADE agents, which takes into consideration the architecture, API and language with which both SMA were developed. Keywords-Mobile agents, Agents communication, interoperability, JADE, JIAC