JAFMAS: A multiagent application development system

D Chauhan, AD Baker - … of the second international conference on …, 1998 - dl.acm.org
D Chauhan, AD Baker
Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents, 1998dl.acm.org
1. ABSTRACT The Java-based Agent Framework for Multi-Agent Systems (JAFMAS)
provides a generic methodology for developing speech-act based multiagent systems (MAS)
along with a set of classes to support implementing these agents in Java. The methodology
follows five stages:(i) agent identification,(ii) definition of each agent's conversations,(iii)
determining the rules governing each agent's conversations,(iv) analyzing the coherency
between all the conversations in the system, and (v) implementation. JAFMAS provides …
1. ABSTRACT The Java-based Agent Framework for Multi-Agent Systems (JAFMAS) provides a generic methodology for developing speech-act based multiagent systems (MAS) along with a set of classes to support implementing these agents in Java. The methodology follows five stages:(i) agent identification,(ii) definition of each agent’s conversations,(iii) determining the rules governing each agent’s conversations,(iv) analyzing the coherency between all the conversations in the system, and (v) implementation. JAFMAS provides communication, linguistic and coordination support through sixteen Java classes. Communication support is provided for both directed and subject-based broadcast communication. Linguistic support is provided for speech-act (eg KQML) based communication languages. Coordination support comes from conceptualizing agent plans and their coordination as rule-based conversations represented by automata models. The n-Queens problem is provided as an example JAFMAS application and Petri Net based analysis tools are used to determine conversation coherency in this MAS.
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