COMPUTING SYSTEMS

Distributed open multi-agent environment: a concept and platform

I. G. Kharin^a, A. V. Yanovsky<sup>b

a</sup> Institute of Scintillation Materials, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv
^b B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Khar'kov

Abstract: The major problems of agent organizations in an open multi-agent environment have been considered. The concept and principles of a platform for the open multi-agent environment, methods of modeling of agent organizations using XMPP and HTTP protocols are described. It is shown that the XMPP protocol provides a natural way to implement the dynamic nature of the organizations. The architecture and base components of the eSocialGRIDs platform for the distributed open multi-agent environment have been developed.

Keywords: agent, multi-agent system, agent organization, platform architecture, open multiagent environment, social networks, instant messages, services cloud.