How the MilramX Software Platform Works

MilramX uses an Intelligent Agent architecture, for reasons explained in Why Intelligent Agents?.

These Intelligent Agents, known as MilramX Task Objects (MTOs) exchange High Level Data Objects (HLDOs) by means of messages in order to perform their collaborative analysis of data and exchange of information.

HLDOs are named sets of name:value parameter pairs, in the manner of a Jason string. Each HLDO has a formal definition in terms of its parameters, their data type, and allowed values. HLDOs provide a convenient, computer independent, representation of data, which is human readable.

Some of the functions that MTOs perform are as follows:

1.  Periodically monitoring tables in databases to see if there is any change to the data so that this data can be sent to other MTOs in the form of HLDOs.
2.  Receiving HLDOs from other MTOs and using these to update databases.
3. Exchanging data with Cloud-based systems via their web-services interfaces.
4. Sending Emails or Text Messages to users in reponse to the receipt of HLDOs containing the Email/Text message information.
5. Sending Files to remote Servers by FTP in response to the receipt of HLDOs detailing what to send where.
6. Interfacing to processors which perform Neural Network based deep reasoning.

The messages exchanged between MTOs contain:

• Destination MTO name
• Command - what to do with the HLDO information
• HLDO - named set of name:value data pairs
• Time/Date Sent
• Importance - how important the information contained in the message is.

These messages are sent through the MX Message Exchange mechanism which forwards messages to the input queue of the designated HLDO.

This mechanism also includes the ability to specify a named distribution list of MTOs, so that a single message can be sent to multiple MTOs, in the manner of an Email forwarding mechanism. There is also an MX input port through which other systems can send HLDOs to the MX Exchange Mechanism.

These messages can also be sent to this port via the MillramX web-server interface. In future it is planned to add the capability for multiple MX systems to exchange messages across processors, resulting in a true distributed real-time AI system.

The MTOs communicate with external systems via MX Adaptors, which, in the case of external databases, can use the Tau-Adaptor rules-based expert system to automate the translation of complex database structures to and from HLDOs.

This enables these HLDOs to be manipulated by the MTO without needing any knowledge of the structure of an underlying database.

The MX Adaptors also perform the function of detecting bad characters in data retrieved from a source database or system, as well as validating that correctly formatted data is being sent to the target system. Where appropriate, these MX Adaptors, will also perform character set conversion, such as from Unicode to ASCII by substituting multiple ASCII characters for one Unicode character.

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