Practical agent programming using JACK Java Agents
Dr. Ralph Rönnquist
AOS
Friday, 28th August 1998
0930 - 1100
Meeting rooms 1 & 2 (off Lesley Clucas lounge)
Building 12, level 4, RMIT
Swanston Street, Melbourne.
Abstract:
Building an agent based application requires sound software engineering
skills and an understanding of the agent-oriented approach. Agent
technology offers a partial solution through its higher level conceptualisation
ontology, which is merely an extension to the well known idea of separating
computation from data. This talk is about using JACK Java Agents
as a basis for agent system development. JACK Java Agents is a framework
for building agent based applications in Java. The core of JACK is
an extensible kernel that is well suited for research extensions for studying
agent models, and one of the first extensions includes BDI semantics.
Biosketch:
Dr. Ralph Rönnquist is currently research manager at Agent
Oriented Software Pty. Ltd., where he continues to take artificial
intelligence solutions into practical use. His interests include
agent based applications and the impact of the agent technology on methodological
software development.
Dr. Rönnquist has a PhD in computer and information science from
Linkoping, Sweden, 1990, where he worked on intelligent information systems
and formal methods for knowledge representation. He was a major contributor
to LINCKS, an intelligent object-oriented database released under GNU licence
1990. He came to Australia in 1993 where he worked at the Australian
Artificial Intelligence Institute, and contributed to the building of dMars
and prototype applications using dMars. Recently he joined Agent
Oriented Software Pty. Ltd. where he has been involved in completing the
JACK Java Agent framework, which incorporates agent technology as part
of a modern, industrial strength software development infrastructure.