Using JACK Intelligent Agents to enable code reuse in Agent Systems
Michael Coburn
AOS
Friday, 29th October 1999
0930 - 1100
Conference Room
CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences
Ground Floor, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne.
Abstract:
As commercial agent systems become more sophisticated, developers are building
increasingly complex agent systems. Agent system developers face
a problem, in that these complex systems usually have to be built from
scratch, with little or no code reuse possible. Agent Oriented Software
has recently introduced a feature into JACK Intelligent Agents (tm) called
Capabilities which serves to make code reuse a reality for agent
system developers.
This talk covers the Capability feature in detail and explains
how it facilitates code reuse and hints at applications in agent role determination
and assignment.
More information on JACK Intelligent Agents is found at http://www.agent-software.com.
Biosketch:
Michael Coburn is an Applications Specialist at Agent Oriented Software.
He is currently on leave of absence from a PhD at RMIT in Multi-Agent Systems.
His areas of interest include the application of social, anthropological
and ecological constructs to multi-agent systems, Complexity Theory and
Group Theory.