Logic modules for communicating distributed agents

The development of isolated agents involves the manipulation of components such as actions, mental attitudes and decisions. Multi-agent systems have to deal with these components from different agents, without to forget the privacy and autonomy of each agent. For programming simple agents, both object-oriented and logic paradigms have shown advantages in terms of behavior encapsulation and mental model manipulation, respectively. Multi-paradigm languages allowing the usage of both programming paradigms can sol ve sorne troubles in agent-oriented programming. However, problems about interaction among agents, especially in physically distributed environments, can not directly be sol ved with that solution. This paper presents an approach based on the usage of logic modules for supporting interaction among agents in a multi-paradigm environment. Logic modules encapsulate a part of a mental state of an agent, being each logic module composed by a sequence of clauses. Objects representing agents manipulate these logic modules. They can transport their own logic modules to the location of another agent. Thus, agents can integrate logic knowledge to their own decision process.Eje: Aspectos teóricos de la inteligencia artificialRed de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI

Brainstorm/J: Un framework para agentes inteligentes

Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems (MAS) are one of the most rapidly developing areas of research of the last years. Agents offer new ways to analyze, design and implement software systems, improving, potentially, the ways in which software is modeled and then materialized by using a programming languageSociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ

Building Object-Agents from a Software Meta-Architecture

Multi-agent systems can be viewed as object-oriented systems in which their entities show an autonomous behavior. If objects could acquire such skill in a flexible way, agents could be built exploiting object-oriented techniques and tools