The Sensor Web Agent Platform(SWAP)

SWAP is a sensor web architecture that makes use of Web services and Multi-Agent systems.It serves as a framework for builinding sensor web applications over the internet.

The SWAP framework is a three-tier architecture framework consisting of three layers namely:

1. Sensor Layer
2. Knowledge Layer
3. Application Layer

The Sensor Layer

-Consists of sensor agents(small programms) that encapsulate the actual sensors.

-Sensor agents pass thier information to the workflow agents in the Knowledge layer.

-Sensor agents hide the implementation of the sensors.

The Knowledge Layer

-Consists of tool,workflow and simulation agents.

-Workflow agents recieve data from sensor agents.

-Tool agents provide feature extraction and image processing functionality.

-Simulation Agents provide projections and analysis of data.

-Data moves from workflow agents to the Application Layer.

Application Layer

-Consits of application agents.They provide various user interfaces for users and various APIs.

Package Management

Packages are group of files which are used by the same program.There are several systems for managing packages in the Linux System.In Gentoo we use portage.

Portage unpacks the packets and installs all the files through the command emerge.

That is, by typing in emerge -<application-package> you can install the package and all that will be required manually is to restart the computer after the installation is complete.

-Taken from Office 142 Discussions