The emerging Open European/Global Information Infrastructure (EII or GII) is characterised by the increasing distribution, its dynamic nature, and the complexity of its resources. To manage such an environment, increased intelligence in management solutions and the mobility of such solutions are becoming major requirements.

Mobile Intelligent Agents (MIA) are offering a new software development paradigm which promises to come up with a new challenge in the Open Information Infrastructure.

The MIAMI project, within this context, is going to focus on the following key objectives:

• Create a unified mobile intelligent agent (MIA) framework by validating, refining and enhancing the OMG MASIF standards according to the requirements for an Open European Information Infrastructure.
• Develop mobile intelligent agent (MIA) based solutions for the management of the Open EII and for the provision of advanced communication and information services.
• Create a reference implementation of the Unified MIA Framework and solutions in order to evaluate the service solutions in a Pan-European business environment.
• Produce the following recommendations:
• ...to infrastructure and terminal providers: when, where and how to introduce the MASIF in their future products.
• ...to service providers: how to develop MIA based solutions for the management of the EII and for the provision of advanced communication and information service.
• Augment the results of selected ACTS projects by the integration of MIA based solutions.
• Participation in the "Domain 5" cluster of ACTS agent projects for the co-ordination of standardisation activities.
• Disseminate results by demonstrations, publications, providing input to standardisation bodies, industrial forums.

The main focus of the MIAMI project will be to achieve these objectives in the context of a real trial. The trial will consist of a project developed agent-based multi-domain management platform and selected Pan-European advanced communication/information services.

• Case study on configuration management using mobile, intelligent agents.
• System design for the management of flexible routing strategies through mobile and intelligent agents.
• Other areas of contribution to be identified in the first few months of the project...

Initial system overview of UCL configuration management scenario

The MIAMI web server at GMD

The MIAMI FTP server

MIAMI pages at the University of Surrey

ACTS information

ACTS Domain 5 Agent Cluster - CLIMATE

Object Management Group

MASIF documentation

IKV++ Grasshopper

FIPA home page

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