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3.4.4.
Administration agent
The administration agent enables the management and administration of PerSyst.
Its main role is to enable a user (in the case of PerSyst, a developer) to interact with
software agents for the adaptation and configuration of PerSyst. In view of all these
constraints imposed by the existing tools of different agent platforms, PerSyst
provides its own administration tool. This tool appears in the form of an agent that
has the necessary skills enabling the administration and management of agents (it is
explained in [ANL 06a]). It is associated with a graphic interface (see Figure 3.3).
Figure 3.3.
The administration agent of PerSyst
The administrator has a view of active agents, their organization and location
(
Connected Agents
window), on skills (
Agent Skills
) and the content of their
exchanges (
Agent Display
). It can create and remove agents, as well as acting on
each of them to add or delete one of the available skills (
Available Skills
). It can also
connect to an existing agent (
Inspect Platform
) or remove it from PerSyst.
3.5. Application to the public transport of people: itinerary search
This section describes an application of the PerMet method using the PerSyst
PS. This application deals with a personalized itinerary search service in the area of
