¡¡Chinese Journal of Computers   Full Text
  TitleSASA5£ºA Method System for Supporting Agent Social Activities
  AuthorsGAO Ji YUAN Cheng-Xiang WANG Jing
  Address(Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027)
  Year2005
  IssueNo.5(838¡ª848)
  Abstract &
  Background
The potential for using the traditional technology of software agents to exploit the web-based social intelligence is obstructed, because this technology is only suited to closed and small systems, and difficult to adapt to the Internet environment which the agent society emerging on Web is faced with. This environment will be participated in by a large number of heterogeneous agents, hence will be open, dynamically changing, and full of non-determining factors. This paper proposes a method system for supporting agent social activities, called SASA5, which aims at adopting the policy-driven social institution in the form of social-sector/federation as main line, and from five dimensions: information modeling, mediate service, rational negotiation, legality management, and user adjustment, creating an open, multi-dimensional, systematic, secure, and easy-to-transparently-adjust infrastructure for social activities, in order to support the effective development of social intelligence for agents.

keywords software agent£»social intelligence£»social activity£»infrastructure£»policy-driven

background This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No.69773019. The research project is ¡°The Foundation Research for Agent-Based Software Engineering¡±, which aimed at creating the advanced theory, methodology, and implementation framework for Agent-Based Software Engineering. The harvested research production included: (1) a template for cooperation planning in which the activity-sharing oriented joint intention acts as the main line, (2) a description language for the mental model of agents, (3) the developing environment for agents and agent systems, (4) an ontology representation language for supporting semantic interoperation between agents and the ontology-based modeling mechanism of information content, (5) the agent-based prototype oriented to technique and business quoting of large complex products.
The following research work ¡°The Infrastructure for Managing and Controlling Agent Social Behavior¡± expanded the research production to create infrastructure for managing and controlling agent social behavior under Internet environment. The developed techniques included: (1) the policy-driven agent social institution in community/federation style, (2) the supports to agent social activity from five dimensions: information modeling, mediate service, rational negotiation, legality management, and user adjustment, (3) the systemization of agent mediate service and the compatible matching mechanism for supporting service lookup, (4) the rational negotiation based on agent mental model, negotiation goals, and negotiation protocols, (5) individualized domination to agent social behavior by formulating user business policy.
The above work has become the foundation of authors¡¯ recent research project ¡°Semantic Grid¡±, which is supported by the Developing Plan of National Emphasis Foundation Research (973 Plan) of China under grant No.2003cb317000.