Platforms for agent-oriented software engineering

Nowostawski, Mariusz; Bush, Geoff; Purvis, Martin; Cranefield, Stephen

doi:10.1109/apsec.2000.896737

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“…For software agents, they are typically concerned with various aspects of multi-agent systems (MAS), including comparing agent platforms (Altmann et al, 2001;Nguyen et al, 2002;Laukkanen, 1999;Nowostawski et al, 2000;Ricordel and Demazeau, 2000), agent development kits (Bitting et al, 2003), mobile agent systems (Silva et al, 2001), or agent environments (Eiter and Mascardi, 2002). There are also comparisons of general agent systems and agent architectures per se (Sloman, 1998;Logan, 1998;Sloman and Scheutz, 2002).…”

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Development environments for autonomous mobile robots: A survey

2006

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Robotic Development Environments (RDEs) have come to play an increasingly important role in robotics research in general, and for the development of architectures for mobile robots in particular. Yet, no systematic evaluation of available RDEs has been performed; establishing a comprehensive list of evaluation criteria targeted at robotics applications is desirable that can subsequently be used to compare their strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, there are no practical evaluations of the usability and impact of a large selection of RDEs that provides researchers with the information necessary to select an RDE most suited to their needs, nor identifies trends in RDE research that suggest directions for future RDE development.This survey addresses the above by selecting and describing nine open source, freely available RDEs for mobile robots, evaluating and comparing them from various points of view. First, based on previous work concerning agent systems, a conceptual framework of four broad categories is established, encompassing the characteristics and capabilities that an RDE supports. Then, a practical evaluation of RDE usability in designing, implementing, and executing robot architectures is presented. Finally, the impact of specific RDEs on the field of robotics is addressed by providing a list of published applications and research projects that give concrete examples of areas in which systems have been used. The comprehensive evaluation and comparison of the nine RDEs concludes with suggestions of how to use the results J. Kramer ( ) · M. Scheutz

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Development environments for autonomous mobile robots: A survey

2006

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“…Studies evaluating various MAS development toolkits (Shakshuki and Jun, 2004;Sánchez López et al, 2010) have shown that JADE can be used to build robust, complex and scalable MAS for most applications. Some reviews (Ricordel and Demazeau, 2000;Nowostawski et al, 2000) of agent development platforms suggest that the GUI of ZEUS, along with tools like report generation, statistical analysis and debugging make it a user friendly development environment for rapidly building scalable and distributable MAS, especially for beginners unfamiliar with the agent design paradigm. The same reviews also suggest that the ease of use may come at the cost of lost functionality.…”

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Survey of multi-agent systems for microgrid control

Kantamneni

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Parker

et al. 2015

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

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“…Traditional software engineering development techniques based on functional analysis and data flow, or on object-oriented modeling, are in many cases not sufficient, in themselves, to capture needed dynamism and flexibility of some of the current development tasks that are undertaken [11] . Researchers are now seeking new methods and approaches that can help software engineers grapple with some of these problems.…”

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MAGE: an agent-oriented software engineering environment

Shi

Zhang

Cheng

et al. 2004

Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, 2004.

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Agent-oriented programming is an important technology for autonomic computing and grid computing. Advances in agent technology depend on improving frameworks for building and supporting agent societies. Experience suggests that first generation multi-agent systems focus only on some aspects and fall short of providing a rapid prototyping development environment for the systematic analyze, design, construction and deployment of agent-oriented applications. This paper presents MAGE, an agentoriented programming environment, with complete tools to support agent-oriented requirement analysis, design, development and deployment. It also gives some comparison between MAGE and other multi-agent platforms with particular focus on methodology. At last, this paper gives some applications on MAGE.

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Platforms for agent-oriented software engineering

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Cited by 7 publications

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Development environments for autonomous mobile robots: A survey

Development environments for autonomous mobile robots: A survey

Survey of multi-agent systems for microgrid control

MAGE: an agent-oriented software engineering environment

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