Authors:
Sergiy Nikitin
;
Vagan Terziyan
and
Michal Nagy
Affiliation:
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Keyword(s):
Agent Technology, Cloud Computing, Semantic Web, Cloud Services, Ubiware.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Autonomous Agents
;
Distributed Control Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
;
Knowledge-Based Systems Applications
;
Robotics and Automation
;
Software Agents for Intelligent Control Systems
Abstract:
Current Cloud Computing stack mainly targets three architectural layers: Infrastructure, Platform and Software. These can be considered as services for the respective layers above. The infrastructure layer is provided as a service for the platform layer and the platform layer is, in turn, a service for the Software layer. Agent platforms fit the “Platform as a service” layer within this stack. At the same time, innovative agent-oriented approaches to programming, open new possibilities for software design in the cloud. We introduce main characteristics of our pilot agent platform called UBIWARE and offer flexible servicing architecture within the cloud platform, where various components and systems can configure, run and reuse intelligent cloud services to provide higher degree of flexibility and interoperability for their applications.