| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L34440/01 |
| Title: |
CASBAH: COMMON AGENT SERVICE BROKERING ARCHITECTURE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Pitt, Professor J |
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| Department: |
Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
22 September 1997 |
Ends: |
21 July 2001 |
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200,694
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| Networks & Distributed Systems |
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This research is motivated by the increasing complexity of modern telecommunications, caused by, for example, new technologies, the deregulation of markets and the shift toward service oriented operations. In order to manage the complexity and increase the responsiveness of modern telecommunications networks, the CASBAh project proposed to use agents that can offer, invoke and negotiate over tasks and services, 'intelligent' brokers which mediate between agents and user interaction with agent-based systems through WWW interfaces. The approach of the CASBAH project is to build on and synthesise:1. the Object Management Group's specification and architecture for distributed object-oriented computing, which uses brokers to mediate requests between clients and servers;2. recent developments in Distributed and Decentralised Artificial Intelligence, which have a common interest in the behaviour of intelligent agents and;3. the use of the WWW as a common interface for co-ordinating activities and accessing information. This project aims to deliver a specification for agent-oriented middle-ware; to develop a prototype implementation of this specification which provides advanced broker functionality; and to demonstrate this implementation in specific telecommunications applications.
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