<s>
MaSMT	B-Application
is	O
a	O
free	O
,	O
lightweight	O
Multi-agent	O
system	O
development	O
framework	B-Architecture
,	O
design	O
through	O
the	O
Java	B-Language
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MaSMT3	O
framework	B-Architecture
provides	O
three	O
types	O
of	O
agents	O
,	O
namely	O
ordinary	O
agent	O
and	O
managing	O
agent	O
and	O
root	O
agent	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MaSMT	B-Application
3.0	O
includes	O
root	O
agent	O
to	O
handle	O
swam	O
of	O
agents	O
,	O
Environment	O
handling	O
features	O
to	O
dynamically	O
store	O
agent	O
's	O
ontology	O
,	O
and	O
notice	O
board	O
has	O
been	O
introducing	O
to	O
see	O
required	O
messages	O
and	O
events	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
framework	B-Architecture
is	O
a	O
useful	O
tool	O
to	O
develop	O
multi-agent	O
system	O
and	O
it	O
saves	O
lot	O
of	O
programmer	O
's	O
time	O
and	O
provides	O
standards	O
for	O
the	O
agent	O
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
framework	B-Architecture
is	O
a	O
useful	O
tool	O
to	O
develop	O
a	O
multi-agent	O
system	O
and	O
it	O
saves	O
much	O
programmer	O
's	O
time	O
and	O
provides	O
standards	O
for	O
the	O
agent	O
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MaSMT	B-Application
(	O
Multi-Agent	O
System	O
for	O
Machine	O
Translation	O
)	O
released	O
as	O
Open	O
Source	O
under	O
the	O
GNU	O
General	O
Public	O
License	O
(	O
GPL	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
framework	B-Architecture
has	O
been	O
completely	O
developed	O
through	O
the	O
Java	B-Language
and	O
provides	O
Cross-platform	B-Operating_System
capabilities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
no	O
prerequisite	O
on	O
MaSMT	B-Application
agents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
First	O
Open	O
source	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
was	O
released	O
on	O
2	O
March	O
2016	O
for	O
to	O
provide	O
general	O
infrastructure	O
for	O
the	O
multi	O
agent	O
system	O
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
new	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
includes	O
some	O
modification	O
of	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
to	O
achieve	O
best	O
performance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
section	O
briefly	O
describes	O
the	O
structure	O
of	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
agents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MaSMT	B-Application
framework	B-Architecture
provides	O
three	O
types	O
of	O
agents	O
,	O
namely	O
ordinary	O
agent	O
,	O
manager	O
agent	O
and	O
root	O
agent	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
regular	O
agents	O
are	O
the	O
action	O
holding	O
agents	O
of	O
the	O
framework	B-Architecture
;	O
precede	O
relevant	O
tasks	O
according	O
to	O
the	O
given	O
messages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
framework	B-Architecture
primarily	O
implements	O
infrastructure	O
of	O
the	O
agents	O
,	O
required	O
actions	O
to	O
handle	O
agent	O
's	O
environment	O
,	O
message	O
parsing	O
activities	O
to	O
agent	O
communication	O
and	O
action	O
monitoring	O
facilities	O
to	O
view	O
an	O
agent	O
's	O
action	O
for	O
implement	O
multi-agent	O
system	O
easily	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MaSMT	B-Application
agents	O
consist	O
of	O
an	O
abstract	O
model	O
of	O
the	O
agents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
architecture	O
,	O
any	O
group	O
consists	O
of	O
one-to-many	O
roles	O
and	O
any	O
role	O
includes	O
some	O
MaSMT	B-Application
agents	O
with	O
independent	O
agent	O
id	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Further	O
,	O
MaSMT	B-Application
agents	O
are	O
capable	O
of	O
changing	O
their	O
role	O
or	O
group	O
at	O
run-time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
only	O
one	O
place	O
at	O
a	O
time	O
Figure	O
1	O
shows	O
the	O
abstract	O
agent	O
model	O
of	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MaSMTAbstractAgent	O
is	O
an	O
abstract	O
model	O
of	O
the	O
each	O
agent	O
in	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
framework	B-Architecture
and	O
which	O
is	O
used	O
to	O
identify	O
each	O
agent	O
independently	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
another	O
word	O
,	O
each	O
agent	O
of	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
system	O
has	O
an	O
id	O
and	O
assigns	O
for	O
the	O
particular	O
group	O
and	O
a	O
role	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MaSMTAgent	O
is	O
the	O
ordinary	O
agent	O
in	O
the	O
framework	B-Architecture
,	O
normally	O
called	O
as	O
an	O
action	O
agent	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MasMT	B-Application
agent	O
consists	O
of	O
an	O
abstract	O
agent	O
,	O
two	O
message	O
queues	O
(	O
in-queue	O
and	O
out-queue	O
)	O
,	O
access	O
rule	O
,	O
communication	O
module	O
,	O
Environment	O
controller	O
,	O
Status	O
monitor	O
and	O
notice-board	O
reader	O
to	O
handle	O
the	O
agent	O
's	O
functionalities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MaSMT	B-Application
agent	O
is	O
a	O
Java	B-Language
thread	O
consists	O
of	O
three	O
sections	O
on	O
its	O
life	O
circle	O
such	O
as	O
active	O
,	O
live	O
and	O
end	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
end	O
section	O
of	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
agent	O
appears	O
when	O
the	O
agent	O
is	O
going	O
to	O
die	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Figure	O
3	O
shows	O
the	O
life-circle	O
of	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
agent	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MasMT	B-Application
Manager	O
is	O
a	O
controlling	O
agent	O
of	O
the	O
system	O
with	O
additional	O
features	O
than	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
ordinary	O
agents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
architecture	O
,	O
The	O
manager	O
agent	O
consists	O
of	O
an	O
abstract	O
agent	O
,	O
two	O
message	O
queues	O
(	O
in-queue	O
and	O
out-queue	O
)	O
,	O
access	O
rule	O
,	O
communication	O
module	O
,	O
Environment	O
controller	O
,	O
Status	O
monitor	O
,	O
notice-board	O
reader	O
,	O
network	O
access	O
agent	O
and	O
Message	O
transport	O
agent	O
to	O
archive	O
managers	O
functionalities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MaSMT	B-Application
manager	O
can	O
fully	O
control	O
its	O
client	O
agent(s )	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Manager	O
agent	O
in	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
creates	O
all	O
its	O
client-agent	O
automatically	O
(	O
as	O
required	O
)	O
at	O
the	O
initialization	O
stage	O
or	O
whenever	O
its	O
use	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
the	O
above	O
basic	O
module	O
,	O
MaSMT	B-Application
manager	O
agent	O
consists	O
of	O
net	O
access	O
agent	O
and	O
message	O
transport	O
agent	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Figure	O
4	O
shows	O
the	O
architecture	O
of	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
Manager	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Compare	O
with	O
MaSMT	B-Application
agent	O
,	O
the	O
manager	O
agent	O
has	O
full	O
control	O
of	O
the	O
notice	O
board	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MasMT	B-Application
Root	O
is	O
a	O
special	O
type	O
of	O
Manager	O
agent	O
(	O
MaSMT	B-Application
Manager	O
)	O
that	O
capable	O
to	O
handles	O
managers	O
in	O
the	O
multi	O
agent	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
MaSMT	B-Application
Root	O
agent	O
can	O
fully	O
control	O
its	O
client	O
managers	O
same	O
as	O
the	O
manager	O
handle	O
its	O
client	O
agents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Same	O
as	O
MaSMT	B-Application
Managers	O
The	O
Root	O
agent	O
consists	O
of	O
Message	O
transport	O
agent	O
and	O
net	O
access	O
agent	O
to	O
handle	O
messages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Theoretically	O
,	O
Root	O
agent	O
is	O
the	O
top	O
level	O
manager	O
of	O
MaSMT	B-Application
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
considering	O
all	O
the	O
above	O
,	O
MaSMT	B-Application
uses	O
a	O
message	O
type	O
named	O
MaSMTMessages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MaSMT	B-Application
Messages	O
design	O
by	O
using	O
FIPA-ACL	O
message	O
standards	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MaSMT	B-Application
uses	O
MaSMTMessage	O
(	O
a	O
message	O
)	O
to	O
communicate	O
between	O
MaSMT	B-Application
agents	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
another	O
agent	O
through	O
the	O
FIPA-ACL	O
message	O
standard	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
section	O
briefly	O
describes	O
message	O
parsing	O
methods	O
used	O
in	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MaSMT	B-Application
support	O
peer-to-peer	O
,	O
broadcast	O
and	O
noticeboard	O
methods	O
to	O
message	O
parsing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Using	O
the	O
framework	B-Architecture
number	O
of	O
the	O
multi-agent	O
system	O
has	O
been	O
developed	O
including	O
Natural	O
Language	O
Processing	O
applications	O
such	O
as	O
English	O
to	O
Sinhala	O
Agent-based	O
Multi-agent	O
system	O
,	O
Sinhala	O
Ontology	O
Generator	O
and	O
Multi-agent	O
based	O
Morphological	O
Analyzer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
the	O
above	O
Intelligent	O
chatbot	O
and	O
a	O
communication	O
platform	O
for	O
Agricultural	O
domain	O
,	O
File	O
sharing	O
application	O
through	O
the	O
distributed	O
environment	O
has	O
already	O
developed	O
through	O
the	O
MaSMT	B-Application
.	O
</s>
