MadKit

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MadKit
Multi Agent Development Kit
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Main characteristics

• Distributable
• Lightweight
• Flexible and customizable
• Written in JAVA
• With a Simulation tool
• Modular and scalable
• AGR (Agent/Group/Role)

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Madkit Environment

• Desktop standard agent launching and development
  environment
• Madkit applet kernel as an applet embedded into
  HTML
• Console booter
• Madkit launcher

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Desktop Quickview
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Desktop Quickview

• Directory explorer
• Default autoload
• Click leaves will launch applications
• Toolbar
• Agent pane
• Output pane

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Communities with different kernels
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Madkit host container

• Desktop container
• Console
• Console.bat or console.sh
• Applet

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Evaluating Madkit

• Allows high heterogeneity in agent architectures
• Communication is based on a peer to peer
  mechanism
• Agents can be programmed in Java, Scheme (Kawa),
  Jess (rule based engine) or BeanShell.
• Full set of facilities and agents for launching,
  displaying, developping and monitoring agents and
  organisations.
• MadKit is a free software based on the GPL/LGPL
  license.

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MadKit vs JADE

• Different purpose in mind For a lot of simple
  agents
• coded easily
• perform simple, reactive tasks,
• investigating global behaviour of mass
  multi-agent simulations,
• For complex and fat agents, that are capable of
• complex behaviour and complex interactions,
• agents that interact with other systems,
• agents that speak ACL and make use of
  ontologies,
• individual agents, their planning, action
  execution, etc

Madkit
Jade
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The Aalaadin model is

• Agent
• Group
• Role

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Tackling Simulations Synchronous Engine
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Demo