This is the first stable release and intended for usage in projects and general development of JIAC 5 platforms. ASGARD 1.0 relies on the current JIAC 5 trunk (5.1.0-SNAPSHOT), we intend to provide a further release as soon as JIAC 5 5.1.0 has been released. Changes can be found in the log below and further documentation in the accompanying Readme.txt file.

Please note that ASGARD now provides a mailing list, to which issues, comments and other feedback can be send: asgarddev@lists.dai-labor.de .

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Jakob & Silvan

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Runtime management of a distributed Multi-Agent System is a complex task. Tools that offer a generic solution for this problem and that are intuitive to use only exist in a very limited way so far. In this paper, we take the example of a Drag-And-Drop migration feature to show a concept and a prototype implementation for an intuitive to use user action. This triggers an interaction between the Multi-Agent Sys- tem and the visual management application, resulting in a migration of a mobile agent between different Agent Nodes. The example shows how the software agent metaphor, used in AOSE concepts at design time, can be sustained and elab- orated in runtime tools for Multi-Agent Systems.

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Monitoring the runtime behaviour of a distributed agent system for de- bugging or demonstration purposes provides a challenge to agent system develop- ers. As a lot of the components in such a system are possibly executed on several different physical systems, maintaining an overview over the complete environment is extremely difficult. Methods taken from the development of monolithic software projects such as log files, debug outputs or step-by-step execution of a program do not easily translate to these scenarios due to the distributed nature of the system. In this paper we describe our concept for a graphical monitoring and management tool “ASGARD” (Advanced Structured Graphical Agent Realm Display), which provides an easy-to-use and intuitively understandable method for monitoring and demonstrating Multi Agent System Infrastructures. ASGARD provides a graphical representation of the connected systems using a 3D visualization. The very promis- ing results from empirical evaluation show that an administrator’s overview over such MAS at runtime is vastly improved.

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While today's agent oriented software engineering facilitates the development of complex, distributed systems, fundamental problems remain. One of the difficulties is that one can see only part of the system, or one side of the business, but not the whole context. BPMN is considered a remedy here, but while suitable for modelling some aspects of agenthood, there are others for which BPMN does not go very well. In this paper, we show how BPMN can be embedded in a broader methodology so that its strengths can be exploited while avoiding its weaknesses.

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In this article we report on the JIAC V team for the agent programming competition 2009, going through the different phases of development and describing the JIAC V agent framework. Based on an iterative approach, we identified and implemented different agent roles. While there is no explicit team concept, the agents cooperate by informing each other of their perceptions and intentions, which leads to emergent team behavior which very dynamically and flexibly reacts to the state of the game.

Please explore the new website, as it has lots of new content and new versions of JIAC V, microJIAC, and the VSDT and AWE tools.

The JIAC developer team

Abstract

Multi-agent system development is a complex task. In this paper we describe our idea of supporting the multi-agent system development within the JIAC framework by a unified tool solution. We illustrate an approach of providing a development platform, which enables comfortable, quick and comprehensive multi-agent system design and provides semantic searching for available services. At this we start with our latest three feature extensions to the JIAC framework, each one developed in the scope of a diploma thesis, and describe our planned adjustments and ideas to achieve the desired functionality.

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In this paper we describe the Agent World Editor, a tool
for designing multi-agent systems and generating executable agent code.
The tool also unies the handling of dierent agent frameworks through
an abstract agent model and an extensible transformation infrastructure. Currently, the tool supports three dierent agent frameworks of the JIAC family, and we feel condent that the approach holds for other frameworks as well as for the generation of multi-agent systems on heterogenous platforms.

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Multi-agent system development is a complex task. In this paper we describe our idea of supporting the multi-agent system development within the JIAC framework by a unified tool solution. We illustrate an approach of providing a development platform, which enables comfortable, quick and comprehensive multi-agent system design and provides semantic searching for available services. At this we start with our latest three feature extensions to the JIAC framework, each one developed in the scope of a diploma thesis, and describe our planned adjustments and ideas to achieve the desired functionality.

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