A knowledge base for knowledge-based multiagent system construction

The goal of the agentTool project at the Air Force Institute of Technology is to specify: design, and semiautomatically generate multiagent systems. The key to this ability is an underlying knowledge base that manages the knowledge used by the system designer in creating intelligent agent-based software applications. This paper describes the Agent knowledge Interchange Mechanism (AIM), the agentTool knowledge base. There are four main components to AIM: the knowledge parser, the Multiagent Markup Language, the AIM domain model, and the Agent-oriented Random-Access Meta-Structure (ARAMS). AIM is implemented using a multiagent system architecture that permits multiple developers to share a single knowledge base thus directly supporting collaborative system design and knowledge reuse.