Fig 2 demonstrates the architecture of MAGE platform, which consists of the following components, each has specific capability set:

• Agent Management System (AMS) exerts supervisory control over access to and use of MAGE platform. It is the managing center of MAGE platform.

• Directory Facilitator (DF) provides yellow pages services to other agents, such as service registration, searching and updating.

• Message Transport Service (MTS) is the default communication method between agents on different agent platforms.

• Agent is the fundamental actor in MAGE which combines one or more service capabilities into a unified and integrated execution model. Each agent can be designed with particular function for different applications.

• Software describes all non-agent, executable collections of instructions accessible through an agent. Non-agent software can be encapsulated with agent.

In addition, two auxiliary modules are provided to support designing agent systems: Agent Library and Function Components. User can compose different agents by using many kinds of function components provided by MAGE. Also user can select suitable agent class from agent library.