From bogtrotting to herding: a UCD perspective

Russell, Seán; Carr, Dominic; Dragone, Mauro; O’Hare, Gregory M. P.; Collier, Rem W.

doi:10.1007/s10472-011-9236-z

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“…The initial evaluation comprised of the use and comparison of two languages created using the framework during participation in the 2010 Multi Agent Contest 4 [11]. The contest scenario consisted of developing a multi-agent system to solve a cooperative task in a dynamic environment.…”

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

Russell

Jordan

O’Hare

et al. 2011

Multiagent System Technologies

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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.

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

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Jordan

O’Hare

et al. 2011

Multiagent System Technologies

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“…The seventh team was UCD Bogtrotters formed by Sean Russell, Rem Collier and Mauro Dragone from University College Dublin, Ireland [29]. Their solution architecture consisted of a custom behavioural layer for the implementation of primitive capabilities and Agent Factory (AF) as the upper layer.…”

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The multi-agent programming contest from 2005–2010

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Dastani

Dix

et al. 2010

Ann Math Artif Intell

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The Multi-Agent Programming Contest is an annual international event on programming multi-agent systems: Teams of agents participate in a simulated cooperative scenario. It started in 2005 and is organised in 2010 for the sixth time. The contest is an attempt to stimulate research in the area of multi-agent system development and programming by (i) identifying key problems in the field and (ii) collecting suitable benchmarks that can serve as milestones for testing multi-agent programming languages, platforms and tools. This article provides a short history of the contest since it started and reports in more detail on the cows and cowboys scenario implemented for the 2008, 2009 and 2010 contest editions. We briefly discuss the underlying technological background and conclude with a critical discussion of the experiences and lessons learned.

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Bogtrotters in Space

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Russell

Pete

et al. 2012

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This is the fourth year in which a team from University College Dublin has participated in the Multi-Agent Programming Contest 1 . This paper describes the system that was created to participate in the contest, along with observations of the team's experiences in the contest. The system itself was built using the AF-TeleoReactive and AF-AgentSpeak agent programming languages running on the Agent Factory platform. Unlike in previous years where a hybrid control architecture was used, this year the system was implemented using only agent code and associated actions, sensors, modules and platform services.

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From bogtrotting to herding: a UCD perspective

Cited by 4 publications

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

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

The multi-agent programming contest from 2005–2010

Bogtrotters in Space

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