Device layer agents for an artificial immune intelligent maintenance system

Artificial Immune Intelligent Maintenance System (AI2MS) is a proposal for a distributed condition-based maintenance system that applies the concepts of Artificial Immune Systems. This work presents the design of a multi agent system to support the development of the Device Layer Agents, the AI2MS first level. Agents modeling and implementation of the agents are presented, with focus on communication strategies. An ontology is also proposed to represent concepts and relations within the system.