Publication - An Agent Infrastructure to Build and Evaluate Multi-Agent Systems: The Java Agent Framework and Multi-Agent System Simulator

Authors: Vincent, Regis; Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor
Title: An Agent Infrastructure to Build and Evaluate Multi-Agent Systems: The Java Agent Framework and Multi-Agent System Simulator
Abstract: In this paper, we describe our agent framework and address the issues we have encountered designing a suitable environmental space for evaluation the coordination and adaptive qualities of multi-agent systems. Our research direction is to develop a framework allowing us to build different type of agents rapidly, and to facilitate the addition of new technology. The underlying technology of our Java Agent Framework (JAF) uses a component-based design. We will present in this paper, the reasons and the design choices we made to build a complete system to evaluate the coordination and adaptive qualities of multi-agent systems.
Keywords: ANTs, Framework, IHome, JAF, MASS, PCT, Planning, Real Time, Supply Chain, TAEMS
Publication: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, Vol: 1887, pp. 102 - 127
Publisher: Wagner and Rana (eds.), Springer,
Date: January 2001
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Reference: Vincent, Regis; Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. An Agent Infrastructure to Build and Evaluate Multi-Agent Systems: The Java Agent Framework and Multi-Agent System Simulator. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 1887, Wagner and Rana (eds.), Springer,, pp. 102-127. January 2001.
bibtex: 
@inproceedings{Vincent-200,
  author    = "Regis Vincent and Bryan Horling and Victor Lesser",
  title     = "{An Agent Infrastructure to Build and Evaluate
               Multi-Agent Systems: The Java Agent Framework and
               Multi-Agent System Simulator}",
  booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence:
               Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems,
               and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems",
  volume    = "1887",
  publisher = "Wagner and Rana (eds.), Springer,",
  pages     = "102-127",
  month     = "January",
  year      = "2001",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/200",
}