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

  • Authors:
  • Régis Vincent;Bryan Horling;Victor R. Lesser

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems: Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe our agent framework and address the issues we have encountered designing a suitable environmental space for evaluating 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.