APoDDS: A DDS-based approach to promote multi-agent systems in distributed environments

Abstract

Multi-agent systems (MAS) paradigm emerged as an innovative technology that seemed to be applicable to a large number of distributed problems. However, during these years, ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence among other distributed paradigms have proposed problems that are currently coped with other technologies. MAS have remained in research environments without establishing themselves in the distributed computing field, despite the benefits it could provide to it. In this paper, the key factors that have produced this situation are pointed, and solutions in order to fix it are proposed. APoDDS is a platform which collects all these solutions and merge them. Finally, a comparison between the new approach and the well-known agent platform JADE is made in order to evaluate the proposal. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.