Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE

Fabio Luigi Bellifemine 지음

Wiley 2007년 03월 13일 출간

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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.Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE:Comprehensive guide to using JADE to build multi-agent systems and agent orientated programming.Describes and explains ontologies and content language, interaction protocols and complex behaviour.Includes material on persistence, security and a semantics framework.Contains numerous examples, problems, and illustrations to enhance learning.Presents a case study demonstrating the use of JADE in practice.Offers an accompanying website with additional learning resources such as sample code, exercises and PPT-slides.This invaluable resource will provide multi-agent systems practitioners, programmers working in the software industry with an interest on multi-agent systems as well as final year undergraduate and postgraduate students in CS and advanced networking and telecoms courses with a comprehensive guide to using JADE t

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The Authors.List of Contributors.Preface.1 Introduction.2 Agent Technology Overview.2.1 About agents.2.2 The Foundation for Intelligent, Physical Agents (FIPA).3 The JADE Platform.3.1 Brief history.3.2 JADE and the agents paradigm.3.3 JADE architecture.3.4 Compiling the software and launching the platform.3.5 JADE packages.3.6 Message transport service.3.7 Admin and debugging tools.4 Programming with JADE &~ Basic Features.4.1 Creating agents.4.2 Agent tasks.4.3 Agent communication.4.4 Agent discovery: the yellow pages service.4.5 Agents with a GUI.5 Programming with JADE &~ Advanced Features.5.1 Ontologies and content languages.5.2 Composing behaviours to create complex tasks.5.3 Threaded behaviours.5.4 Interaction protocols.5.5 Interacting with the AMS.5.6 Starting JADE from an external Java application.6 Agent Mobility.6.1 Agent mobility.6.2 Intra-platform mobility.6.3 Inter-platform mobility service.6.4 Usage of the JADE mobility services.7 JADE Internal Architecture.7.1 Distributed coordinated filters.7.2 Creating a JADE kernel service.8 Running JADE Agents on Mobile Devices.8.1 Main limitations of the mobile environment.8.2 The LEAP add-on.8.3 The split container execution mode.8.4 Developing MIDP agents.8.5 LEAP add-on advanced.9 Deploying a Fault-Tolerant JADE Platform.9.1 The main replication service.9.2 Attaching the DF to a relational DB.10 The JADE Web Services Integration Gateway.10.1 Web service technology.10.2 The utility of agent and Web service integration.10.3 The WSIG architecture.10.4 Installation requirements.10.5 WSIG installation procedure.10.6 WSIG operation.10.7 Example 1: Web service client invokes an agent service.10.8 Example 2: Agent service invokes a Web service.11 Agent-Soci

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"As a guide, this book is much better than online documentation because it's more comprehensive." (IEEE Distributed Systems Online)"…a comprehensive book that covers a wide range of topics related to agent-based programming with JADE." (Computing Reviews.com, October 1, 2007)

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저자(글) Fabio Luigi Bellifemine

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Fabio Bellifemine is a senior project manager at the Research Labs of Telecom Italia. He inspired, originated and led the JADE Project and, later, he launched and presided at the JADE Governing Board. He graduated summa cum laude from the Computer Science University of Torino in 1988 and, before joining Telecom Italia (formerly CSELT), until 1994 he was a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) working in the field of digital video coding. In 1996 he joined the FIPA standardization body and he was attracted by the software agent technology. In 2000, on behalf of the Work Package 1 of the FACTS Project, he was awarded the first prize in the FIPA competition for the best agent-based application: -New generation TV entertainment system-. He served as chairman of the FIPA Architecture Board and, next, of the X2S Technical Committee with the challenging goal of promoting to standard the core specifications of FIPA. The effort and the passion for this emerging technology were recognized by appreciation certificates of FIPA for his outstanding contributions. He is IEEE Senior Member, member of the Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and member of the Program Committee of some scientific conferences in this research field. He is also member of the Expert Group of JSR 271 which is going to specify the third generation of Java MIDP specifications. His research interests mainly focus on agent technologies and on their adoption to develop better and more efficient systems and applications; recently, he launched in Telecom Italia a new research program in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks.Giovanni Caire graduated summa cum laude from the Politecnico di Torino in 1992 and, after that, joined the Research Labs of Telecom Italia (formerly CSELT) where he is now a senior project manager. He started working in the Multimedia and Video Services department where he w