FIPA Based Agent Communication in Distributed Information Retrieval System

Abstract

Agents have ability to communicate with one another in order to tackle the collectively problem that no single agent can, individually. They communicate with each other using Agent Communication Language (ACL). Agents also have ability to travel from one host to another in order to perform their jobs completely. This type of agent, called mobile agent, can beneficially use in distributed information retrieval system. However, mobile agent has interoperability problems such that the mobile agent has limited interacting with stationary agent and with information source. Nevertheless, ACL can solve these interoperability problems. By deploying the abilities of mobile agent, this paper is developed a distributed information retrieval system based on mobile agent who can find and give the information of the user requested car from different Toll-gates relevant with the user location. In this system, mobile agents communicate with stationary agent by using FIPA ACL in order to avoid the interoperability problem. This system developed using Java programming language and Java Agent Development framework (JADE).