Universidade de São Paulo USP Departamento de Engenharia de Computação e Sistemas Digitais PCS Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes LTI SACI -  Simple Agent Communication Infrastructure

The main propose of SACI is to enable distributed agents to communicate in a easy way. Thus, it is a Java API and a set of tools that can be used in order to help the development of societies of distributed agents.
 

Features

• Agents are grouped in societies according to an organizational model (Moise+).
• Agents communicate among themselves by KQML messages.
• Agents are identified by a name. They can send messages to others agents just using receiver's name. The location in the network is made transparent to the sender by a Facilitator (white pages service).
• Agents might know others by a yellow pages service. Agents can register their services with facilitator and query this facilitator to find out what services are offered by which agents.
• Agents can be implemented as applets and can run on web browses.

Tools

• Control of the execution of the distributed agent: there is an interface that allows the user 
• to start new agents, locally or remotely, as a thread or as a process.
• to kill/stop the agents, and
• to move the agents.
  
• Monitor: shows all running agents, where they are, and every message changed among them. It is a useful tool to debug the society.
• Mail Box java class: it is a java class that encapsulates all methods you need to get your agent in a SACI environment. To program a SACI agents, you just need to instanciate an object of this class (see a source sample).

Project members

• Jomi Fred Hübner
• Jaime Simão Sichman