SoFAR with DIM Agents - An Agent Framework for Distributed Information Management

In this paper we present sofar, a versatile multi-agent framework designed for Distributed Information Management tasks. sofar embraces the notion of proactivity as the opportunistic reuse of the services provided by other agents, and provides the means to enable agents to locate suitable service providers. The contribution of sofar is to combine some ideas from the distributed computing community with the performative-based communications used in other agent systems: communications in sofar...