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Title

JADE-FSM-Engine: a deployment tool for flexible agent behaviours in JADE

Author(s)

Goh, Suk Keong;  Chhetri, Mohan Baruwal;  Kowalczyk, Ryszard

Abstract

Multiagent systems (MAS) are a promising software development paradigm for complex and dynamic application domains. However, building effective MAS software requires models, mechanisms and tools that support the flexible and precise specification and implementation of MAS, specifically agent behaviours. MAS should be designed highly flexible capable of adapting to changes in their environment and user needs. JADE platform provides limited support for constructing and coordinating complex agent behaviours by employing the FSM model. Our experiences motivated us to build the JADE-FSM-Engine as a JADE add-on, extending and augmenting the native JADE FSM Behaviour. This add-on enables easy runtime configuration and reconfiguration of JADE agents, improving flexibility and adaptability of MAS implementations. A simple example illustrates this flexibility.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Information Technology Research

Source

Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT 2007, Silicon Valley, USA, 02-05 November 2007 / Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthias Klusch, Chengqi Zhang, Andrei Broder, Howard Ho (eds.), pp. 524-527

Publication year

2008

Keyword(s)

Dynamic application domains;  Information retrieval;  JADE;  Multiagent systems

Publisher

IEEE

ISBN

9780769530277, 0769530273

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2007.59

Copyright

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