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In this paper, we describe our agent framework and address the issues we have encountered designing a suitable environmental space for evaluating the coordination and adaptive qualities of multi-agent systems. Our research direction is to develop a framework allowing us to build different type of agents rapidly, and to facilitate the addition of new technology. The underlying technology of our Java Agent Framework (JAF) uses a component-based design. We will present in this paper, the reasons and the design choices we made to build a complete system to evaluate the coordination and adaptive qualities of multi-agent systems.
Effort sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory Air Force Materiel Command, USAF, under agreement number #F30602-97-l-0249 and #F30602-99-2-0525. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation thereon. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.IIS-9812755. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Laboratory or the U.S. Government.
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Vincent, R., Horling, B., Lesser, V. (2001). An Agent Infrastructure to Build and Evaluate Multi-Agent Systems: The Java Agent Framework and Multi-Agent System Simulator. In: Wagner, T., Rana, O.F. (eds) Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems. AGENTS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1887. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47772-1_11
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