Design and implementation of a hybrid intelligent and mobile agent platform

This paper presents IMAP, a hybrid intelligent and mobile agent platform. IMAP intends to employ the underlying derivation/adduction and mobility mechanism. In IMAP, intelligent agent and mobile agent can not only fully exploit individual virtue, but also cooperate to perform a task under a uniform platform. Each intelligent agent can accept queries from mobile agents by means of the interface module; each query is passed to the reasoning module of intelligent agent, which performs a derivation and adduction in order to get an answer for mobile agent. IMAP also provides mobile agents a flexible and efficient coordination mechanism. The design and implementation and key technologies of IMAP are described in this paper. An application example shows the suitability and the effectiveness of the IMAP. Finally, some conclusions and remarks are given.