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Exploiting Simulation for MAS Development and Execution—The JaCaMo-Sim Approach

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2020)

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Simulation can be an important conceptual and practical tool to support the engineering of multi-agent systems (MAS), in different ways. In this paper we consider the case in which simulation is applied and exploited directly upon a MAS developed using an existing agent/MAS programming platform. That is: without requiring to model and simulate agents and their environment using a different platform, e.g. an agent-based simulation one. In particular, we describe the design of JaCaMo-sim, an extension of the JaCaMo platform that makes it possible to both run and simulate the execution of MAS programs based on BDI agents written in Jason, situated in artifact-based environments developed in CArtAgO. The tool can be useful for different aspects that concern MAS engineering, from MAS testing/debugging at development time to agent decision making support at runtime.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    “As they are” here means, roughly speaking, considering their actual code and implementation.

  2. 2.

    At the time of writing, JAMES II is the reference version, available at http://jamesii.informatik.uni-rostock.de/jamesii.org/.

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    Available here: https://github.com/jacamo-lang/jacamo-sim.

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  1. DISI, University of Bologna, Cesena, FC, Italy

    Alessandro Ricci & Angelo Croatti

  2. POLI-PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Rafael H. Bordini

  3. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

    Jomi F. Hübner

  4. Univ. Lyon, MINES Saint-Etienne, CNRS Lab., Saint-Étienne, France

    Olivier Boissier

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Torino, Torino, Torino, Italy

    Cristina Baroglio

  2. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Jomi F. Hubner

  3. School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Michael Winikoff

A Events and Activities

A Events and Activities

Table 1. Agent EC events and activities concerning the reasoning cycle, and the sense stage in particular (excluding those involving agent communication and agent-environment interaction). The same names are used in the current JaCaMo-sim implementation (in particular, for each event a Java class with the same name is defined).
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Table 2. Events and activities involved in agent communication.
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Table 3. Events involved in agent-environment interaction.
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Table 4. Activities involved in agent-environment interaction.
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Ricci, A., Croatti, A., Bordini, R.H., Hübner, J.F., Boissier, O. (2020). Exploiting Simulation for MAS Development and Execution—The JaCaMo-Sim Approach. In: Baroglio, C., Hubner, J.F., Winikoff, M. (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12589. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66534-0_3

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