Pericles is a design environment for the development of ontologies and interaction protocols integrated in the AgentService framework for Multi-Agent systems. We briefly illustrate the framework, introducing in particular the ontology service which allows AgentService users to clearly represent knowledge bases and message contents. The interaction protocol service provides a simple way to represent structured dialogs among agents. Pericles allows developers to graphically design these dialogs through AUML diagrams and to automatically generate the code representing the interaction protocols. A Pericles diagram defines agent roles which evolve sending and receiving messages through alternative paths and loops. The generated code allows an agent to participate to a conversation with peers, playing a role through a behaviour object.
Pericles: improving agent communication capabilites in AgentService
BOCCALATTE, ANTONIO
2006-01-01
Abstract
Pericles is a design environment for the development of ontologies and interaction protocols integrated in the AgentService framework for Multi-Agent systems. We briefly illustrate the framework, introducing in particular the ontology service which allows AgentService users to clearly represent knowledge bases and message contents. The interaction protocol service provides a simple way to represent structured dialogs among agents. Pericles allows developers to graphically design these dialogs through AUML diagrams and to automatically generate the code representing the interaction protocols. A Pericles diagram defines agent roles which evolve sending and receiving messages through alternative paths and loops. The generated code allows an agent to participate to a conversation with peers, playing a role through a behaviour object.
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