Building Multi-Agent Systems From Reusable Software Components

ZUNINO, A.; AMANDI, A.

Brasil

Workshop; 3rd Workshop in Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems (3WDAIMAS) held in conjunction with the 7 th Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 2000) and the th Brazilian AI Symposium (SBIA 2000); 2000

SBC

Despite the variety of tools to support the development of multi-agent systems (MAS), the implementation of such systems remains expensive and ad-hoc. This is caused by the difficulty or, in some cases, impossibility, of tailoring and successfully applying these tools due to their lack of flexibility. In this paper we propose object-oriented frameworks as a technique to build tailorable and reusable platforms for MAS. As an example we describe our experiences with a framework named Brainstorm/J.