Title :
A script-oriented developing environment for multi-agent systems
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Manage., Chaoyang Univ. of Technol., Taiwan, China
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;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5731-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1999.812389
