Abstract:
For making good decisions in the area of petroleum
production, it is becoming a big problem how to timely
gather sufficient and correct information, which may be
stored in databases, data files, or on the World Wide
Web. In this paper, Gaia methodology and Open Agent
Architecture were employed to contribute a framework
to solve above problem. The framework consists of three
levels, namely, role mode, agent type, and agent
instance. The model with five roles is analyzed. Four
agent types are designed. Six agent instances are
developed for constructing the system of petroleum
information services. The experimental results show that
all agents in the system can work cooperatively to
organize and retrieve relevant petroleum information.
The successful implementation of the framework shows
that agent-based technology can significantly facilitate
the construction of complex systems in distributed
heterogeneous data resource environment.
