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Debugging Agents in Agent Factory

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Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS 2006)

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The ability to effectively debug agent-oriented applications is vital if agent technologies are to become adopted as a viable alternative for complex systems development. Recent advances in the area have focussed on the provision of support for debugging agent interaction where tools have been provided that allow developers to analyse and debug the messages that are passed between agents.

One potential approach for constructing agent-oriented applications is through the use of agent programming languages. Such languages employ mental notions such as beliefs, goals, commitments, and intentions to facilitate the construction of agent programs that specify the high-level behaviour of the agent. This paper describes how debugging has been supported for one such language, namely the Agent Factory Agent Programming Language (AFAPL).

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Collier, R. (2007). Debugging Agents in Agent Factory. In: Bordini, R.H., Dastani, M., Dix, J., Seghrouchni, A.E.F. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4411. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71956-4_14

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