Engineering JADE agents with the Gaia methodology

  • Authors:
  • Pavlos Moraïtis;Eleftheria Petraki;Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus and Singular Software, Thessaloniki, Greece;Singular Software, Thessaloniki, Greece;Singular Software, Thessaloniki, Greece

  • Venue:
  • NODe'02 Proceedings of the NODe 2002 agent-related conference on Agent technologies, infrastructures, tools, and applications for E-services
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Behavior-Oriented Design (BOD) is a development methodology for creating complex, complete agents such as virtual-reality characters, autonomous robots, intelligent tutors or intelligent environments. BOD agents are modular, but not multi-agent systems. They use hierarchical reactive plans to perform arbitration between their component modules. BOD provides not only architectural specifications for modules and plans, but a methodology for building them. The BOD methodology is cyclic, consisting of rules for an initial decomposition and heuristics for revising the specification over the process of development.