A Service-Based Agent Framework for Distributed Symbolic Computation

Abstract

Abstract. We present OKEANOS, a distributed service-based agent framework implemented in Java, in which agents can act autonomously and make use of stationary services. Each agent's behaviour can be controlled individually by a rule-based knowledge component, and cooperation between agents is supported through the exchange of messages at common meeting points (agent lounges). We suggest this general scheme as a new parallelization paradigm for Symbolic Computation, and demonstrate its applicability by an agent-based parallel implementation of a satisfiability (SAT) checker.

Impacts of Niche Breadth and Dispersal Ability on Macroevolutionary Patterns

“…The three climate scenarios were used to test whether niche breadth and dispersal ability dynamics were congruent across different rates and periodicities of climate change. Simulations were conducted in C11 and controlled by a master-agent-slave framework (sensu Schimkat et al 2000) in Java.…”

Parallel Jess

“…In the computational environment each Jess is an active independent computational entity with the ability to communicate with other Jess instances. The OKEANOS middleware [40] provides an infrastructure for mobile agents that access computational services and communicate by passing messages. The agents are implemented in Java and contain rule-based knowledge interpreted by Jess.…”