Russ:
Have you looked at Jade <http://jade.tilab.com/> (Jave Agent Devel
Environ)? Try a Google search on
Jade Agent Systems and you will also turn up AgentOWL
<http://agentowl.sourceforge.net/>. The latter is an agent
system based on Jade but adds an OWL based ontology using Jena for the
ontology
processing.
Steph T
Russ Abbott wrote:
Thanks, Steven,
From my initial Googling the closest I could find was Drools
<http://jboss.org/drools/>. It's intended to provide a forward
chaining rule programming language for distributed systems (J2EE).
It's open source from JBoss. Although it has nothing to do with
Agent-based modeling, it seems quite nice and quite general. It runs
on top of and is completely integrated with Java. Agent can simply be
an object type. Its Template
<http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/docs/drools-expert/html_single/index.html#d0e5774>
capability allows it to generate rules that are stored as Java
objects, which seems to make it capable of manipulating rules
dynamically. I'll have to look into that further. One can make it a
simulation engine by keeping a tick counter in the workspace.
It would be nice, though, if there were a system already developed for
this sort of thing. Now that I know what I want, it seems like such a
natural and powerful kind of modeling capability that it's amazing
that it hasn't been done!
-- Russ
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Stephen Guerin
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Russ,
I haven't seen a system like your describing. It shouldn't be too
hard to assemble though if the rule grammar was simple.
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On Aug 22, 2009, at 9:13 PM, Russ Abbott wrote:
Hi,
I'm interesting in developing a model that uses rule-driven
agents. I would like the agent rules to be condition-action
rules, i.e., similar to the sorts of rules one finds in
forward chaining blackboard systems. In addition, I would like
both the agents and the rules themselves to be first class
objects. In other words, the rules should be able:
• to refer to agents,
• to create and destroy agents,
• to create new rules for newly created agents,
• to disable rules for existing agents, and
• to modify existing rules for existing agents.
Does anyone know of a system like that?
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