Prototypes of productivity tools for the jadescript programming language

Jadescript is an agent-oriented programming language built on top of JADE. So far, the focus of the development of the language was on design choices, on syntax refinements, and on the introduction of expressions and constructs for agent-related abstractions and tasks. In this paper, a proposal to achieve the crucial goal of making Jadescript suitable for professional use is presented. The success of Jadescript, as a solid language to build real-world agent-based software systems, is necessarily related to its effective integration with mainstream development tools. In this paper, some of the productivity tools developed to integrate Jadescript with a mainstream development environment are presented as a way to promote the successful adoption of the language towards the community of JADE users

Location-aware JADE Agents in Indoor Scenarios

This paper presents a novel JADE add-on that enables the implementation of location-aware agents by interfacing an underlying ranging technology which provides accurate distance measures both indoor and outdoor. First, the paper motivates the work and it presents the features and the architecture of the add-on. Then, the paper provides a detailed description of the implemented localization algorithms and it validates them in an indoor scenario. The experimental results show that accurate indoor localization can be achieved and that the presented add-on can be used to support location-aware agents with sufficient accuracy for targeted educational and ludic applications