Architectural Design of a Multi-Agent System for Handling Metadata Streams
Cruickshank, Don, Moreau, Luc and Roure, David De (2001) Architectural Design of a Multi-Agent System for Handling Metadata Streams. The fifth ACM International Conference on Autonomous Agents , 505--512.
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We have designed a multi-agent architecture to deliver metadata streams synchronously with multimedia streams over a wide-area network. To this end, we have devised a simple protocol for synchronising agents to a media clock. This protocol defines the concept of deadline, after which servers can drop data because it can no longer reach clients in time. We also introduce a new concept of contract as a first-class entity representing a successful subscription; a contract is used by agents as a session identifier during the navigation of streams. Quality of service is a vital element of this architecture because of the need to deliver metadata on time. As a result, our architecture supports various communication protocols, including UDP, RMI, SSL, or multicast. This resulted in a return to a more declarative form of speech acts, totally orthogonal to a notion of virtual communication channel used to manage the quality of service of communication.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Additional Information: | Organisation: ACM Address: Montreal, Canada |
| ISBNs: | 158113326 |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science |
| Item ID: | 256349 |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2002 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2012 10:47 |
| Contributors: | Cruickshank, Don (Author) Moreau, Luc (Author) Roure, David De (Author) |
| Date: | May 2001 |
| Additional Information: | Organisation: ACM Address: Montreal, Canada |
| Status: | Published |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/256349 |
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