TAGA: Travel Market Framework in Agentcities

Abstract

Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is a framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (T AC) system to work in Agentcities, an open multiagent systems environment of FIPA compliant systems. TAGA makes several contributions: auction services are added to enrich the Agentcities environment, the use of the semantic web languages RDF and DAML+OIL improve the interoperability among agents, and the DAML-S ontology is employed to support service registration, discovery and invocation. The FIP A and Agentcities standards for agent communication, infrastructure and services provide an important foundation in building this distributed and open market framework. TAGA is intended as a platform for research in multi-agent systems, the semantic web and/or automated trading in dynamic markets as well as a selfcontained application for teaching and experimentation with these technologies. It is running as a continuous open game at http://taga.umbc.edu/ and source code is available for research and teaching purposes.