A Scalable Distributed Architecture for Web-Based Software Agents

摘要

In recent years, the web has become an important software platform, with more and more applications becoming purely web-based. The agent technology needs to embrace these trends in order to remain relevant in the new era. In this paper, we present recent developments of our web-based multiagent middleware named Siebog. Siebog employs enterprise technologies on the server side in order to provide automatic agent load-balancing and fault-tolerance. On the client, it relies on HTML5 and related standards in order to run on a wide variety of hardware and software platforms. Now, with automatic clustering and state persistence, Siebog can support thousands of external devices hosting tens of thousands of client-side agents.