Extended multi-agent system based service composition in the Internet of things

摘要

The Internet of Things' (IoT) services offer an asset to improve IoT applications and their effectiveness in order to provide smartness to our environment. Academic and industrial actors are engaged to develop the IoT service composition paradigm. Indeed, it enables the aggregation of IoT services to satisfy complex supplies from several application domains. It can also be used to develop original IoT applications in an efficient, flexible and dynamic way. This paper proposes an approach for IoT service composition using a multi-agent system where several agents are engaged to satisfy the user's request. Simple reflex agents represent services, links, and requests. However, goal-based agent stands for the reasoner of the proposed MAS. The SysML language and the Netlogo platform are used respectively to design and implement the proposed approach. The test scenarios show obviously the importance, practicability, and suitability of the multi-agent systems for the IoT application based on service composition.