Agent cooperation based control integration by activity-sharing and joint intention.

In this paper, a control integration method based on agent cooperation,called ASOJI, is proposed, which designs the architecture of integrated application systems in distributed computation environments as an agent community composed of nested agent federations in three aspects: architecture style, agent cooperation, and composition semantics. Through defining activity-sharing-oriented joint intention in the way of stepwise refinement, ASOJI can not only support the transparent specification of the architecture for software composition, but also eliminate the gap between agent theory and the engineering realization of control integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]