Mobile and intelligent platform for agent-communication environment: MIPLACE

This paper presents an agent communication platform named MIPLACE equipped with agent monitoring, tracing, security and registration functions in addi tion to the basic functions, such as movement, cooperation and so on. Inter est in agent communication technology, which realizes a variety of communic ation services using agent oriented softwares, is raised as one of new dist ributed processing technologies corresponding to modern wide-area networks. Agent communication platforms which provide an agent development environme nt and an agent execution environment are announced from software vendors a nd communication service providers. In the technologies, studies of various techniques, such as process migration and security, are, proposed. In this paper, we take notice of the facility for the agent software development a nd the management in order to provide the users and developers of agent sof tware more useful agent communication platform besides the basic functions. In particular, MIPLACE provides sophisticated and effective GUI so that op erators can use the functions easily and develop necessary communication se rvices.