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25.03.2010 - Paper accepted: PAAMS 2010Silvan Kaiser, Jakob TonnAbstractMonitoring the runtime behaviour of a distributed agent system for de- bugging or demonstration purposes provides a challenge to agent system develop- ers. As a lot of the components in such a system are possibly executed on several different physical systems, maintaining an overview over the complete environment is extremely difficult. Methods taken from the development of monolithic software projects such as log files, debug outputs or step-by-step execution of a program do not easily translate to these scenarios due to the distributed nature of the system. In this paper we describe our concept for a graphical monitoring and management tool “ASGARD” (Advanced Structured Graphical Agent Realm Display), which provides an easy-to-use and intuitively understandable method for monitoring and demonstrating Multi Agent System Infrastructures. ASGARD provides a graphical representation of the connected systems using a 3D visualization. The very promis- ing results from empirical evaluation show that an administrator’s overview over such MAS at runtime is vastly improved. PAAMS 2010 Home | |
19.03.2010 - Paper accepted: SOCASE @ AAMAS 2010, TorontoTobias Küster, Marco Lützenberger, Axel Heßler, Benjamin HirschAbstractWhile today's agent oriented software engineering facilitates the development of complex, distributed systems, fundamental problems remain. One of the difficulties is that one can see only part of the system, or one side of the business, but not the whole context. BPMN is considered a remedy here, but while suitable for modelling some aspects of agenthood, there are others for which BPMN does not go very well. In this paper, we show how BPMN can be embedded in a broader methodology so that its strengths can be exploited while avoiding its weaknesses. | |
16.03.2010 - Accepted for Publication: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial IntelligenceAxel Heßler, Benjamin Hirsch, Tobias KüsterAbstractIn this article we report on the JIAC V team for the agent programming competition 2009, going through the different phases of development and describing the JIAC V agent framework. Based on an iterative approach, we identified and implemented different agent roles. While there is no explicit team concept, the agents cooperate by informing each other of their perceptions and intentions, which leads to emergent team behavior which very dynamically and flexibly reacts to the state of the game. | |
07.03.2010 - JIAC.de website revampedThe last few months we have been very busy updating and extending our JIAC frameworks and accompanying tools. During this time however we somewhat neglected the JIAC.de website. We are happy however to announce that this has changed, and JIAC.de has a new look! Please explore the new website, as it has lots of new content and new versions of JIAC V, microJIAC, and the VSDT and AWE tools. The JIAC developer team | |
16.10.2009 - Article Invited: Computing and Information Systems JournalMichael Burkhardt, Marco Lützenberger und Nils Masuch:AbstractMulti-agent system development is a complex task. In this paper we describe our idea of supporting the multi-agent system development within the JIAC framework by a unified tool solution. We illustrate an approach of providing a development platform, which enables comfortable, quick and comprehensive multi-agent system design and provides semantic searching for available services. At this we start with our latest three feature extensions to the JIAC framework, each one developed in the scope of a diploma thesis, and describe our planned adjustments and ideas to achieve the desired functionality. PDF | |
01.09.2009 - Accepted Short Paper: Mates'09Marco Lützenberger, Tobias Küster, Axel Heßler, Benjamin HirschAbstractIn this paper we describe the Agent World Editor, a toolfor designing multi-agent systems and generating executable agent code. The tool also uni es the handling of di erent agent frameworks through an abstract agent model and an extensible transformation infrastructure. Currently, the tool supports three di erent agent frameworks of the JIAC family, and we feel con dent that the approach holds for other frameworks as well as for the generation of multi-agent systems on heterogenous platforms. PDF | |
16.08.2009 - Paper accepted: EASSS 2009Michael Burkhardt, Marco Lützenberger und Nils Masuch:AbstractMulti-agent system development is a complex task. In this paper we describe our idea of supporting the multi-agent system development within the JIAC framework by a unified tool solution. We illustrate an approach of providing a development platform, which enables comfortable, quick and comprehensive multi-agent system design and provides semantic searching for available services. At this we start with our latest three feature extensions to the JIAC framework, each one developed in the scope of a diploma thesis, and describe our planned adjustments and ideas to achieve the desired functionality. PDF | |
10.10.2008 - Golden CowDuring his visit to Berlin, Professor Dix, one of the organisers of the Multi Agent Contest handed over the Cup to the winning team 2008: The Golden Cow. My team and I want to thank you and all organisers and competitors for this interesting, challanging and thrilling contest. We like this contest very much and hope that there will be more contests to come. I think, we should start the discussion about how to make this contest even more interesting, challanging and thrilling then it still is. All the best, Axel.
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