Table 1.
Comparison of several solutions. FIPA-ACL, Foundation for Intelligent Physical
| Solution | Field | Communication in the MAS | Agents migration | Agents monitoring | Agents activities scheduling | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marques [23] | e-Government | Messages structure notspecified. | X | X | X | Prototype of an interoperability architecture. |
| Contreras [25] | Any field, tested in the oil industry. | FIPA-ACL; XML for encoding. | The agents can be static ormobile. | It monitors the state, properties and logs of the agents. | X | X |
| Lanzola [28] | Healthcare | ACL | X | Solving the control problems using meta-rules. | X | Prototype of aframework for cooperative agents |
| Orgun [30] | Healthcare | HL7 messages | Mobil eagents | X | X | X |
| Kim [32] | u-Healthcare | Messages structure notspecified. | Mobile agents | Logs monitoring | X | X |
| New AIDA module | Any field, tested in the healthcare. | FIPA-ACL | X | It monitors the state and properties of the agents. It stores and enables one to analyze the performance of theagent activities. | It enables agent scheduling and rescheduling if necessary. | X |