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    Developing

    Multi-Agent Systems
    with JADE

    F a b i o Bellifemine, Telecom Italia, Italy


    G i o v a n n i Caire, Telecom Italia, Italy
    D o m i n i c GreenwOOd, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland

    BICENTENNIAL

    ICENTENNIAL

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd


    Contents

    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
    Contents

    7 JADE Internal Architecture 131


    7.1 Distributed coordinated Alters 131
    7.2 Creating a JADE kernel service 136

    8 Running JADE Agents on Mobile Devices 145


    8.1 Main limitations of the mobile environment 145
    8.2 The LEAP add-on 146
    8.3 The split Container execution mode 150
    8.4 Developing MIDP agents 154
    8.5 LEAP add-on advanced 161

    9 Deploying a Fault-Tolerant JADE Platform 173


    9.1 The main replication service 173
    9.2 Attaching the DF to a relational DB 176

    10 The JADE Web Services Integration Gateway 181


    10.1 Web service technology 181
    10.2 The Utility of agent and Web service Integration 182
    10.3 The WSIG architecture 182
    10.4 Installation requirements 184
    10.5 WSIG installation procedure 185
    10.6 WSIG Operation 186
    10.7 Example 1: Web service client invokes an agent Service 193
    10.8 Example 2: Agent service invokes a Web service 203

    11 Agent-Society Conflguration Manager and Launcher 207


    11.1 Basic terms and concepts 207
    11.2 Book-trading example 209
    11.3 Distributed deployment 215
    11.4 The XML meta-model 218
    11.5 Inside the ASCML 220
    11.6 Distributed monitoring, logging and debugging 222
    11.7 Outlook 223

    12 JADE Semantics Framework 225


    12.1 FIPA-SL language 226
    12.2 Interpretation engine 230
    12.3 Basic semantic agent 231
    12.4 Specializing the interpretation activity 234
    12.5 Customizing belief handling 237
    12.6 Handling Actions 240
    12.7 Synthesizing Standard and advanced use of the JSA 245
    12.8 Conclusions 245

    13 A Selection of Other Relevant Tools 247


    13.1 The Bean Generator 247
    13.2 JADEMX 250
    13.3 The Java Sniffer 251
    13.4 JADEX - engineering goal-oriented agents 254
    Contents

    APPENDIX A Command Line Options 259


    A.l Syntax 259
    A.2 Options to launch Containers and main Containers 260
    A.3 General Options 261
    A.4 Options of the JADE kernel-level Services 262
    A.5 Options related to MTPs 265
    A.6 Options to configure the yellow page DF service 267
    A.7 Options specific to the JADE-LEAP platform 268
    A.8 Extending the command line with user-defined options 269

    APPENDIX B List of Symbols and Acronyms 271

    Bibliography 275
    References 275
    FIPA Specifications 278

    Index 281

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