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ing, we know that service tracking may represent the
same three characteristics with intelligent agents; there-
fore, we may think that service tracking could be applied
to build intelligent agents.
5. Conclusions
This paper opened by posing some questions surrounding
IEC61850 and intelligent agents: Why IEC61850 could
be applied to build intelligent agents? How does
IEC61850 used to build intelligent agents? And what is
the significance of IEC61850 used to build intelligent
agents? In this paper the first question has been answered,
by introducing that what is agents, what is intelligent
agents, what characteristics does intelligent agents have
and so on. On the other hand, we briefly introduced ser-
vice tracking and reporting and analyzed the characteris-
tics of service tracking in detail. Through the compara-
tive analysis, we concluded that service tracking could be
applied to build intelligent agents.
In order to enhance the benefits of this propose for
power engineering applications, we will work on the two
main directions to answer the latter two questions in fu-
ture. First, we are going to use IEC61850 to build a
tracking system based on intelligent agents, which is
mainly to explore the method of using IEC61850 to build
multi-agent system. Second, we will apply the agents-
based tracking system for power engineering applications
flexibility, which is about to achieve the significance of
applying the agents-based tracking system.
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