Component Agent Framework for Non-Experts (CAFnE) Toolkit

Jayatilleke, Gaya; Padgham, Lin; Winikoff, Michael

doi:10.1007/3-7643-7348-2_8

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“…The Component Agent Framework for domain-Experts (CAFnE) [1] toolkit was built to allow domain experts with limited programming skills to easily build and modify agent systems. This is a result of the experience gained in working with a group of meteorologists on an agent-based weather alerting system [3].…”

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Component Agent Framework for domain-Experts (CAFnE) toolkit

Jayatilleke

Thangarajah

Padgham

et al. 2006

Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

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The Component Agent Framework for domain-Experts (CAFnE) toolkit is an extension to the Prometheus Design Tool (PDT). It uses the detailed design produced by PDT with further annotations by domain experts to automatically generate executable code into a desired agent platform. The key feature of CAFnE is that it allows domain experts with limited programming skills to easily build and modify agent systems.

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Component Agent Framework for domain-Experts (CAFnE) toolkit

Jayatilleke

Thangarajah

Padgham

et al. 2006

Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

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“…Many of the domain independent concepts exist in a range of agent design and development methodologies, which can therefore be adapted for building the application using the CAFnE toolkit. We build on the Prometheus methodology [11] and the support tool available for development using this methodology [10] called PDT 3 .…”

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“…This model identifies a list of basic component types required for modelling an agent application, namely: attribute, entity, environment, goal, event, trigger, plan, step, belief and agent. Further details of these can be found in [3]. In order to generate executable code from these basic components we adopted a Model Driven Development approach as used in the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) [5] of the Object Management Group (OMG).…”

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“…This is achieved by applying a set of XML-Transformations (XSLT) to the XML component specifications generated by the CDG Module. Specifics of the Transformation modules including the rules and how it operates are described in [3]. Currently the Transformation Module generates JACK agent language code.…”

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“…To add a new instance of an existing type requires addition into the initialization model. Further detail on using the CAFnE tool is available in [3].…”

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Evaluating a Model Driven Development Toolkit for Domain Experts to Modify Agent Based Systems

Jayatilleke

Padgham

Winikoff

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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An agent oriented approach is well suited for complex application domains, and often when such applications are used by domain experts they identify modifications to be made to these applications. However, domain experts are usually limited in agent programming knowledge, and are not able to make these changes themselves. The aim of this work is to provide support so that domain experts are able to make modifications to agent systems. In this paper we report on an evaluation of our Component Agent Framework for domain Experts (CAFnE) framework and toolkit, giving a detailed account of a usability study we conducted with a group of experienced meteorologists.

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