AGENT TECHONOLOGIES SYLLABUS(CA5323)

AGENT TECHONOLOGIES SYLLABUS(CA5323)

ANNA UNIVERSITY TRICHY

LTPC

 3003

UNIT I AGENT TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW 9

Agent – Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents – JADE Platform.

UNIT II JADE PROGRAMMING 9

Creating agents – Agent tasks – Agent communication – Agent discover: the yellow pages service – Ontology and content languages – Composing behaviors to create complex tasks – Threaded behaviors – Interaction protocols – Interacting with the AMS.

UNIT III AGENT MOBILITY 9

Agent mobility – Intra-platform mobility – Inter-platform mobility service – Distributed coordinated filters – Creating a JADE kernel service.

UNIT IV AGENTS AND MOBILE DEVICES 9

Limitations of the mobile environment – The LEAP add-on – Split container execution mode – Developing MIDP agents – Advances features of LEAP add-on – Replication service – Attaching the DF to a relational DB.

UNIT IV AGENT AND WEB SERVICE INTEGRATION 9

Web service technology – Utility of agent and Web service integration – WSIG architecture – Installation requirements and procedure – operation – Distributed deployment – XML meta-model – ASCML – Distributed monitoring, logging and debugging – Semantics Framework.

Total: 45

TEXT BOOKS

1. Fabio Bellifemine, Giovanni Caire, Dominic Greenwood, “Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE “ John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2007

2. Richard Murch, Tony Johnson,” Intelligent Software Agents”, Prentice Hall, 2000.

REFERENCES

1. Bigus & Bigus,”Construction Intelligent agents with Java”, Willey, 1997. 2. Bradshaw,” Software Agents”, MIT Press, 2000.