Hello,
Some agent-based simulation frameworks support the implementation of Belief–Desire–Intention (BDI) agent models directly or through libraries.
I would like to ask what is the best agent-based simulation framework to implement BDI agents?
Thanks & Regards,
I don't know which one is the best, that probably depends on set of features of interest.
JASON: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jason/ is well known.
Best Regards
Ante
It is difficult to say which is the best because it depends on what you want to do with it and the knowledge you have on the platforms.
I worked on an implementation of a BDI architecture in GAMA, which allows to do a lot of things while remaining easy to access. We also coupled it with emotional and normative engines.
GAMA website: http://www.gama-platform.org
Presentation of GAMA's BDI architecture: https://github.com/gama-platform/gama/wiki/Using-BEN-(simple_bdi)
I think this always depends on the technology ecosystem one wants or has to develop in. Most popular BDI agent frameworks are Java-based (Jason, JACK). From an academic point of view, Jason is a natural top candidate, but from a practical software engineering perspective I would select based on the following criteria:
- Actively maintained
- Does not require adopting a new language (which is a downside of Jason: in practice, most organizations will refuse adopting a language like AgentSpeak)
- Integrates seamlessly into the technology ecosystem that you work in
- Scales well enough for use case
For web-based BDI agent development, let me shamelessly plug my own new library, JS-son: https://github.com/TimKam/JS-son (JavaScript-based).
Thanks all for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I agree that to choose the best framework is something relative and based on the situation.
So far, we have some suggestions (JASON, GAMA, JS-son library).
We are trying to implement a BDI using Repast Simphony.
If others have implemented any softwares with BDI agents on other frameworks, we appreciate if you share your experience with us. Thanks.
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