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Adding Extensible Synchronisation Capabilities to the Agent Model of a FIPA Compliant Agent Platform

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE 2000)

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In this paper, we present an agent platform, called JADE (Java Agent Development Environment), that tries to ease development applications in compliance with the FIPA specifications. Moreover, we describe an extension to JADE original agent model that allows expressing agent synchronisation constraints better and provides wider foundations to build higher-level agent architecture on. JADE agent model is more “primitive” than the agent models offered by other systems, and mainly deals with message handling and plan scheduling. Exploiting research results about concurrent OO languages, JADE agent model has been extended in a way that solves the inheritance anomaly problem and will be useful to JADE users when they will create more complex agents.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, 181A, 43100, Parma, Italy

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Poggi, A., Rimassa, G. (2001). Adding Extensible Synchronisation Capabilities to the Agent Model of a FIPA Compliant Agent Platform. In: Ciancarini, P., Wooldridge, M.J. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. AOSE 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1957. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44564-1_20

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