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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470057475
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470057476
• Author: Fabio Bellifemine

Learn how to employ JADE to build multi-agent systems!

JADE (Java Agent Development framework) is a middleware for the development of applications, both in the mobile and fixed environment, based on the Peer-to-Peer intelligent autonomous agent approach. JADE enables developers to implement and deploy multi-agent systems, including agents running on wireless networks and limited-resource devices.

Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE is a practical guide to using JADE. The text will give an introduction to agent technologies and the JADE Platform, before proceeding to give a comprehensive guide to programming with JADE. Basic features such as creating agents, agent tasks, agent communication, agent discovery and GUIs are covered, as well as more advanced features including ontologies and content languages, complex behaviours, interaction protocols, agent mobility, and the in-process interface. Issues such as JADE internals, running JADE agents on mobile devices, deploying a fault tolerant JADE platform, and main add-ons are also covered in depth.

Table contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Agent Technology Overview 3

2.1 About agents 3

2.2 The Foundation for Intelligent, Physical Agents (FIPA) 10

3 The JADE Platform 29

3.1 Brief history 29

3.2 JADE and the agents paradigm 30

3.3 JADE architecture 32

3.4 Compiling the software and launching the platform 34

3.5 JADE packages 37

3.6 Message transport service 39

3.7 Admin and debugging tools 42

4 Programming with JADE – Basic Features 51

4.1 Creating agents 51

4.2 Agent tasks 57

4.3 Agent communication 65

4.4 Agent discovery: the yellow pages service 72

4.5 Agents with a GUI 75

5 Programming with JADE – Advanced Features 77

5.1 Ontologies and content languages 77

5.2 Composing behaviours to create complex tasks 91

5.3 Threaded behaviours 99

5.4 Interaction protocols 100

5.5 Interacting with the AMS 107

5.6 Starting JADE from an external Java application 111

6 Agent Mobility 115

6.1 Agent mobility 115

6.2 Intra-platform mobility 117

6.3 Inter-platform mobility service 119

6.4 Usage of the JADE mobility services 121

7 JADE Internal Architecture 131

7.1 Distributed coordinated filters 131

7.2 Creating a JADE kernel service 136

8 Running JADE Agents on Mobile Devices 145

8.1 Main limitations of the mobile environment 145

8.2 The LEAP add-on 146

8.3 The split container execution mode 150

8.4 Developing MIDP agents 154

8.5 LEAP add-on advanced 161

9 Deploying a Fault-Tolerant JADE Platform 173

9.1 The main replication service 173

9.2 Attaching the DF to a relational DB 176

10 The JADE Web Services Integration Gateway 181

10.1 Web service technology 181

10.2 The utility of agent and Web service integration 182

10.3 The WSIG architecture 182

10.4 Installation requirements 184

10.5 WSIG installation procedure 185

10.6 WSIG operation 186

10.7 Example 1: Web service client invokes an agent service 193

10.8 Example 2: Agent service invokes a Web service 203

11 Agent-Society Configuration Manager and Launcher 207

11.1 Basic terms and concepts 207

11.2 Book-trading example 209

11.3 Distributed deployment 215

11.4 The XML meta-model 218

11.5 Inside the ASCML 220

11.6 Distributed monitoring, logging and debugging 222

11.7 Outlook 223

12 JADE Semantics Framework 225

12.1 FIPA-SL language 226

12.2 Interpretation engine 230

12.3 Basic semantic agent 231

12.4 Specializing the interpretation activity 234

12.5 Customizing belief handling 237

12.6 Handling Actions 240

12.7 Synthesizing standard and advanced use of the JSA 245

12.8 Conclusions 245

13 A Selection of Other Relevant Tools 247

13.1 The Bean Generator 247

13.2 Jademx 250

13.3 The Java Sniffer 251

13.4 JADEX – engineering goal-oriented agents 254

Appendix A Command Line Options 259

A.1 Syntax 259

A.2 Options to launch containers and main containers 260

A.3 General Options 261

A.4 Options of the JADE kernel-level services 262

A.5 Options related to MTPs 265

A.6 Options to configure the yellow page DF service 267

A.7 Options specific to the JADE-LEAP platform 268

A.8 Extending the command line with user-defined options 269

Appendix B List of Symbols and Acronyms 271

Bibliography 275

References 275

FIPA Specifications 278

Index 281