Agent Cooperation Based Control Integration by Activity-Sharing and Joint Intention

In this paper, a control integration method based on agent cooperation,called ASOJI, is proposed, which designs the architecture of integratedapplication systems in distributed computation environments as anagent community composed of nested agent federations in three aspects:architecture style, agent cooperation, and composition semantics.Through defining activity-sharing-oriented joint intention in the way ofstepwise refinement, ASOJI can not only support the transparentspecification of the architecture for software composition, but alsoeliminate the gap between agent theory and the engineering realizationof control integration.