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EMAS 2020: Engineering Multi-Agent Systems pp 1–20Cite as

Delivering Multi-agent MicroServices Using CArtAgO

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This paper describes an agent programming language agnostic implementation of the Multi-Agent MicroServices (MAMS) model - an approach to integrating agents within microservices-based architectures. In this model, agents, deployed within microservices, expose aspects of their state as virtual resources that are externally accessible using REpresentational State Transfer (REST). Virtual resources are implemented as CArtAgO artifacts, exposing their state to the agent as a set of observable properties. Coupled with a set of artifact operations, this enables the agent to monitor and manage its own resources. In the paper, we formally model our approach, defining passive and active resource management strategies, and illustrate its use within a worked example.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://microservices.io/patterns/apigateway.html.

  2. 2.

    https://github.com/mikekelly/hal_specification/wiki/APIs.

  3. 3.

    https://netty.io/.

  4. 4.

    https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson.

  5. 5.

    https://gitlab.com/mams-ucd.

  6. 6.

    https://swagger.io/specification/.

  7. 7.

    https://raml.org/.

  8. 8.

    http://www.consus.ie.

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This research is funded under the SFI Strategic Partnerships Programme (16/ SPP/3296) and is co-funded by Origin Enterprises Plc.

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O’Neill, E., Lillis, D., O’Hare, G.M.P., Collier, R.W. (2020). Delivering Multi-agent MicroServices Using CArtAgO. In: Baroglio, C., Hubner, J.F., Winikoff, M. (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12589. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66534-0_1

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