Software Tools for Developing Agents
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Jeremy Baxter and Brian Logan, Program Cochairs
Technical Report WS-98-10 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
What’s an AI Toolkit For? / 1
Aaron Sloman
Classifying Agent Systems / 11
Brian Logan
The Impact of Perception on Agent Architectures / 21
Micheal Hewett
A Case Study on the Evolution of Software Tools Selection and Development in a Large-scale Multi-agent System / 29
Eric Glover, Sunju Park, Anil Arora, Daniel Kiskis and Edmund Durfee
A Learning Agent Shell and Methodology for Developing Intelligent Agents / 37
Gheorghe Tecuci, K Wright, S Lee, M Boicu, M Bowman and D Webster
Virtual Battlefield Simulation Agents, Experience with the SIM_AGENT Toolkit / 47
Jeremy Baxter and Richard Hepplewhite
Case Study: Intelligent Software Supply Chain Agents Using ADE / 53
Anshu Mehra and Mark Nissen
Experience with the InfoSleuth Agent Architecture / 63
Marian Nodine, Brad Perry and Amy Unruh
Jackal: A Java-based Tool for Agent Development / 73
R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaochang Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, James Mayfield and Akram Boughannam
CDT: A Tool for Agent Conversation Design / 83
Mark Greaves, Heather Holmback and Jeff Bradshaw
AFS and HAC: Domain-General Agent Simulation and Control / 89
Marc Atkin, David Westbrook, Paul Cohen and Gregory Jorstad
IaDEA: A Development Environment Architecture for Building Generic Intelligent User Interface Agents / 97
Scott Brown and Eugene Santos
Object Frameworks for Agent System Development / 107
Steven Goldsmith, Shannon Spires and Laurence Phillips
Abstracts
Designing Autonomous Agents for Process Control / 113
Virginio Chiodini and Anshu Mehra
Criteria for VRML-based Tools Supporting Intelligent Agents and Their Environments / 115
Elisabeth Cuddihy, Christopher Egert, Yu Qing Song and Deborah Walters
A Method and Architecture for Building Compliance Agents / 117
James Davis, Michael Huhns and Ronald Bonnell
Implementing Multi-agent Systems: Languages, Frameworks and Standards / 119
Keith S. Decker, T. Finin, C. Manning, M. Singh and J. Treur
SICS AgentBase: A Toolbox for Developing Agents / 123
Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne and Sverker Janson
Designing More Interactive Interface Agents / 125
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen
A Flexible and Extendible Architecture for Autonomous Robotics / 127
Jason Garforth and Anthony Meehan
Properties and Models of Software Agents and Agent Systems / 129
Erika Horn, Mario Kupries and Dirk Glode
The Wrapper Induction Environment / 131
Nick Kushmerick and Brett Grace
EMMA: An Extendable Mobile Agent Architecture / 133
Russell Lentini, Coutharn Rao, Jon Thies and Jennifer Kay
KQML Lite Languages and Services / 135
Robin McEntire and Donald McKay
Desdirata for Incorporating Coordination Design into a Designer’s Desktop for DAI / 137
Raphael Malyankar
Java Interagents for Multi-agent Systems / 139
Francisco Martin, Enric Plazza, Juan Rodriguez-Aguilar and Jordi Sabater
An Agent Architecture for Telecommunications Applications / 141
Murhimanya Clovis Muhugusa
ZEUS: A Collaborative Agents Toolkit / 143
Hyacinth Nwana, Divine Ndumu, Lyndon Lee and Jaron Collis
Distributed Intelligence: Bridging the Agent–Agent Divide / 145
Donie O'Sullivan, Richard Evans and David Kerr
Reusable Components for Middleware Agents / 147
Alun Preece
A Business View Regarding the Selection of Agent Development Toolkits / 149
Steven Schoepke
A Toolkit for Building Component Based Agents / 151
Nikolaos Skarmeas and Keith Clark
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