A proposal on a model of an autonomous agent using the meta-level architecture

We propose a model on the structure of an autonomous agent using the meta-level architecture which consists of two level, that is, base-level and meta-level. In the base-level of an agent, usual computations are performed. In the meta-level of an agent, several computations, for example, load balancing, communications among other agents and so on, are executed. Therefore, multi-agent applications based on our model can execute not only their usual computations but also their computational environment dynamically. It is possible to regard a computer which is a component of a cluster as an agent proposed this paper. Then, the cluster of personal computers and/or workstations is one of such applications. To implement such applications easily, we also propose to construct the system based on our model using some features of the MPI (Message Passing Interface).