Beyond prototyping in the factory of agents

  • Authors:
  • Rem Collier;Gregory O'Hare;Terry Lowen;Colm Rooney

  • Affiliations:
  • University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland;University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland;University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland;University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper introduces Agent Factory, a cohesive framework supporting a structured approach to the development and deployment of agent-oriented applications. We describe Agent Factory together with an accompanying agent development methodology. We detail the key attributes of Agent Factory, namely: visual design, design reuse, behaviour enactment, migration, and ubiquity. Agent Factory functionality is exercised by way of a case study. We offer cross comparison of our system with exemplar agent prototyping environments.