Combining Logical Agents with Rapid Prototyping for Engineering Distributed Applications

  • Authors:
  • Philip Dart;Ed. Kazmierczak;Leon Sterling;Maurizio Martelli;Viviana Mascardi;Floriano Zini;V. S. Subrahmanian

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • STEP '99 Proceedings of the Software Technology and Engineering Practice
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The realization of new distributed and heterogeneous software applications is a challenge that software engineers have to face. Logic Programming and Multi-Agent Systems can play a very effective role in the rapid prototyping of new software products. The paper proposes a general approach to the prototyping of complex and distributed applications modelled as Multi-Agent Systems and outlines the autonomous research experiences of different research groups from which the approach originates. All the experiences have Logic Programming as the common foundation and deal with different aspects of the problem: integration of heterogeneous data and reasoning systems, animation of formal specifications and development of agent based software. The final goal is joining the diverse experiences into a unique open framework.