As much as I have read, most of the work on multi-agent-systems and thereby,on design of an agent, JADE (or other similar platforms, say JANUS,GAMA,etc) has been extensively used to model a single agent and the entire agent-based-framework.
My question is:
Is it acceptable/standard/suitable to design/model an agent as a user-defined function/class (taking-in some input arguments and yielding some outputs), whose some of the inputs may/can be outputs of other agents(also modeled as functions/classes) and its outputs may/can be inputs to other agents(also modeled as a functions/classes), without using the JADE or similar platforms?
First and foremost, you must define the sets of instances targeted by models: entities in business environment (e.g roles in analysis models) or software surrogates in systems (e.g classes in design models).
Second, you have to distinguish between physical agents (identified on their own, and actors (aka roles) defined within the organization.
https://caminao.wordpress.com/2015/12/19/agents-shadows/
What is the purpose of your agents?
If you are interested in service system and social simulation perhaps my lecture slides can help you to answer some questions.
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszps/g54sim/2016/G54SIM-Lec05_2016_full.pdf
I have also published a paper on how to build a multi agent system from scratch:
https://fedcsis.org/proceedings/2014/pliks/335.pdf
Peer-Olaf,
While there are plenty of useful examples in your presentation there isn't much about: (a) Responsibility in decision-making (not in games but with regard to the organizational environment).
(b) Communication capabilities (natural language, symbolic, or non symbolic).
Those are critical for agents taxonomy.
https://caminao.wordpress.com/who-is-to-use-the-system/agents/
Hi, Do you know about NetLogo? You can define any agent with each feature that you want.
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