An Industrial Multi-Agent System (MAS) Platform

Abstract

When it comes to address challenges in the area of distributed and parallel computing, Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are emerging as a key architecture. Characterized as a collection of autonomous software (agents) which are able to cooperate in a distributed environment, MAS-based applications have proven capabilities when using cognitive processes, reasoning and knowledge representation in order to develop functionality related to complex and dynamic scenarios where the contribution of a single agent is computationally limited. In this paper, we propose an industrial platform which fully supports the development, deployment and maintenance cycle of MAS-based applications.