An Architecture and System for Support of Cooperation in Multi-Agent Software Development

- There are many agent tools for facilitating professional programmers in developing multi-agent systems (MAS); however, not all of them can be easily used by users who are not professional programmers. Also there is a need for MAS to provide explicit support for agent cooperation. Therefore, in this paper we propose a script language to enable non-professionals to build their agents in an easy way using available tools and we implement a cooperative work support module which is based on the Agora concept. The developed platform is implemented as a plug-in to the JADE system; however, it can be also plugged-in to other agent platforms who comply with FIPA ACL.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SERP
• Authors: Xuetao Niu, Boxun Zhang, Mihhail Matskin
• Keywords: Agent Cooperation, Agent Tools, Professional Programmers, SERP 2007, Software Engineering