Building Blocks for Agent Design

We present our Component-Based Agent Framework, which enables a software engineer to design a set of agents by using a visual compo nent-based toolkit (Sun’s BDK), and wiring together desired blocks of functionality. We instantiate this framework in the RoboCup domain by implementing the necessary components. The implementation also serves as a proof of the viability of our framework. Finally, we use this implementation to build sample agents. The proposed framework is a first step towards the merging of agent-based and component-based design tools.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: AOSE
• Authors: Hrishikesh J. Goradia, José M. Vidal
• Keywords: AOSE 2003, Compo Nent-based Toolkit, Component-Based Agent Framework, Component-based Design Tools