Agent Factory: A Framework for Prototyping Logic-Based AOP Languages

Abstract

Abstract. Recent years have seen the emergence of a number of AOP languages. While these can mostly be characterized as logic-oriented languages that map situations to courses of action, they are based on a variety of concepts, resulting in obvious differences in syntax and semantics. Less obviously, the development tools and infrastructure -such as environment integration, reuse mechanisms, debugging, and IDE integration -surrounding these languages also vary widely. Two drawbacks of this diversity are: a perceived lack of transferability of knowledge and expertise between languages; and a potential obscuring of the fundamental conceptual differences between languages. These drawbacks can impact on both the languages' uptake and comparability. In this paper, we present a Common Language Framework that has emerged out of ongoing work on AOP languages that have been deployed through Agent Factory. This framework consists of a set of pre-written components for building agent interpreters, together with a set of tools that can be easily adapted to different AOP languages. Through this framework we have been able to rapidly prototype a range of different AOP languages, one of which is presented as a case study in this paper.

tATAmI-2 -- A Flexible Framework for Modular Agents

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Bogtrotters in Space

“…This includes support for inheritance, partial plans, abstract plans, and plan overriding as described in [2]; and an extended set of plan operators, including: foreach (plan expansion), while (loops), if (selection), wait and when (delayed execution), and = (assignment). This extended planning language is provided as part of the Common Language Framework [11]. Figure 1 contains part of the code for the Leader agent.…”

“…As with the previous years entry, our approach was centered around the use of two specific AOP languages: AF-AgentSpeak, an AgentSpeak variant that is based on Jason [4] and AF-TeleoReactive, an implementation of Nilssons Teleo-Reactive programming language [8]. Both of these langages were implemented using the Common Language Framework [11], a set of reusable components that aims to simplify the prototyping of AOP languages. This is the fourth year in which a team from University College Dublin has participated in the contest.…”

PRIMA 2015: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems

“…Students on this course typically have 5 or more years of industrial software engineering experience and are senior software engineers in their respective companies. During the course, the students are exposed to an AgentSpeak(L)-based language, which has been one of AF-AgentSpeak [5], Jason [4], and our most recent agent-programming language, ASTRA [6].…”