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Core Features of an Agent-Oriented Domain-Specific Language for JADE Agents

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This paper presents the core features of JADEL, an agent-oriented domain-specific programming language for the construction of JADE agents, behaviours and ontologies. The work on JADEL originates from the need to assist programmers by means of tools that reduce the complexity and speed up the construction of a JADE agents and multi-agent systems. The features of JADEL discussed in this paper include abstractions for the main entities of JADE—agents, behaviours and ontologies—and they also encompass the features needed for the construction of domain-specific tasks, thus enriching JADE APIs with novel and simple notations.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universitá degli Studi di Parma, 43124, Parma, Italy

    Federico Bergenti

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Universitá degli Studi di Parma, 43124, Parma, Italy

    Eleonora Iotti & Agostino Poggi

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Bergenti, F., Iotti, E., Poggi, A. (2016). Core Features of an Agent-Oriented Domain-Specific Language for JADE Agents. In: de la Prieta, F., et al. Trends in Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, the PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 473. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40159-1_18

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