Hi Miles, We exchanged some mutually appreciative emails some time ago but haven't spoken in quite a while. I hope things are well with you.
I'm looking for an ABM framework in which (a) agents are driven by forward chaining rules (i.e., a "blackboard" system) and (b) those rules are themselves first class citizens in the model so that, for example, an agent can create a new agent with dynamically generated rules or an agent can modify its own rules dynamically. Owen Densmore of the FRIAM group suggested (see below) that you may be working on something like this. Are you? I can't find the reference Owen referred to. Thanks, -- Russ Abbott _____________________________________________ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles Cell phone: 310-621-3805 o Check out my blog at http://russabbott.blogspot.com/ On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't this close to Miles Parker's latest work? His WedTech talk seemed to > suggest that. His proposal was accepted, and he's got a project page: > http://www.eclipse.org/amp/ > .. he may have become less ambitious in the rule-driven approach, not sure. > > -- Owen > > > > On Aug 22, 2009, at 9:58 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > 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. >> >> -S >> --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... >> [email protected] >> (m) 505.577.5828 (o) 505.995.0206 >> redfish.com _ sfcomplex.org _ simtable.com _ lava3d.com >> >> 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? >>> >>> -- Russ >> >>
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