A script-oriented developing environment for multi-agent systems

Author

Lin, Fang-Chang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Manage., Chaoyang Univ. of Technol., Taiwan, China

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

135

Abstract

Describes the design of SODE (Script-Oriented Development Environment) for multi-agent systems. A script specifies a multi-agent system by defining the behavior of each agent. SODE accepts and executes user-specified scripts by employing several workstations to simulate the behaviors of the specified multi-agent system. Each agent is an independent process in the system. Agents communicate with each other via TCP/IP networks. SODE provides an environment for system developers to compare different coordination mechanisms when they develop multi-agent systems. This paper utilizes a multi-agent object sorting task to illustrate the development environment

Keywords

authoring systems; development systems; multi-agent systems; sorting; transport protocols; SODE; Script-Oriented Development Environment; TCP/IP networks; agent behaviour definition; agent communication; coordination mechanisms; independent processes; multi-agent systems; object sorting task; user-specified scripts; workstations; Chaotic communication; Communication system control; Computer networks; Hardware; IP networks; Information management; Multiagent systems; Protocols; TCPIP; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.812389

Filename

812389