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JAFMAS = Java-based Agent Framework for MultiAgent Systems development and
implementation
>Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 17:31:26 -0500
>From: Bert.Baker@UC.Edu
>Subject: FREE SOFTWARE - Java-based Agent Framework for MultiAgent Systems
> Development and Implementation (JAFMAS)
>
>If you want to develop agents in Java, you should take a look at JAFMAS.
>It's FREE, it's STRAIGHTFORWARD, and it's WELL DOCUMENTED. JAFMAS provides
>a framework to guide multiagent systems development along with a set of
>classes for agent deployment in Java. The software and documentation can
>be downloaded from
>
> http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~abaker/JAFMAS
>
>The framework is intended to help beginning and expert agent developers
>structure their ideas into concrete agent applications. It directs
>development from a speech-act perspective. It supports multicast and
>directed communication, KQML or other speech-act performatives and analysis
>of system coherency and consistency.
>
>The JAFMAS 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.
>
>Implementation is supported by 16 Java classes including those for
>communication, linguistic interaction and coordination. Only 4 of the
>provided classes must be extended for any application.
>
>Communication support is provided for both directed communication and
>subject-based broadcast communication.
>
>Linguistic support is provided for speech-act (e.g. KQML) based
>communications and allows use of an agent independent semantics.
>
>Coordination support follows from Searle's thesis (Speech Acts, Cambridge
>University Press, 1962) that, "speaking a language is engaging in a [highly
>complex] rule-governed form of behavior." Thus agent plans and their
>coordination are conceptualized as rule-based conversations represented by
>automata models.
>
>JAFMAS classes support each agent with multiple threads, one for the agent,
>one for each conversation in which the agent engages, and one for each
>subject to which the agent subscribes.
>
>A five step process is presented for implementing a multiagent system.
>Here JAFMAS classes are extended for each agent, for each conversation, for
>each conversation rule, and for an operator interface to develop
>application specific classes. Then a start-up procedure is deployed.
>
>Example applications are provided of the n-Queens problem and supply chain
>integration. Petri Net based analysis tools are used to determine
>conversation coherency.
>
>System Requirements: Sun's Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1, any operating
>system supporting the JDK 1.1 (Window95, Windows NT v3.51, v4.0, Solaris
>v2.3, v2.4, v2.5).
>
>For further information or to download a FREE COPY of the JAFMAS class
>library (V0.1) visit
>
> http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~abaker/JAFMAS
>
>
>Contacts:
>Deepika Chauhan (dchauhan@ececs.uc.edu) or Bert Baker (bert.baker@uc.edu)
>Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
>834A Rhodes Hall - ML 30, University of Cincinnati
>Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0030, USA
>Ph. (513)556-4782
>
>
>____________________________________________________________________
>Albert D. Baker, Director
>Agent-Based Manufacturing Laboratory
>Elec & Comp Eng and Comp Sci Dept e-mail:Bert.Baker@UC.EDU
>834A Rhodes Hall - ML 30 http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~abaker
>University of Cincinnati voice:(513) 556-4782
>Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030 fax:(513) 556-7326
>____________________________________________________________________
>
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