Coordinating Java agents with multiple coordination languages on the Berlinda platform

Abstract

A coordination language for agent defines the kind of elements, operations to construct and deconstruct elements, and the actual coordination operations that manipulate a coordination medium. The family of Linda-like coordination languages has demonstrated this view most purely with operations that are based on the manipulation of a shared multiset of elements. With Berlinda a model is designed and implemented on which coordination languages a la Linda and beyond can be implemented. As examples a simple versions of Linda and a subset of KQML have been implemented. We use Berlinda to study the problem of interworking amongst multiple coordination environments. For Web access to agents we integrate the coordination environments into the Jigsaw Web-server.