Introduction of Java Agent

Development Environment
(JADE)
Presented by Po-Cheng Huang

Outline
Introduction

Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA)

Java Agent Development Environment (JADE)

Running

JADE Platform

Install JDK 1.5

Install JADE Platform
Run JADE Platform
Run Agent on JADE Platform

Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA)

IEEE Computer Society standards organization

A body for developing and setting computer
software standards for heterogeneous and
interacting agents and agent-based systems.
Agent management
Agent communication language (ACL)
Integration agent and other computer software
http://www.fipa.org/
A software agent
A piece of software that acts for a user or other
program in a relationship of agency
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JADE platform

JADE is a middleware that facilitates the

development of Multi Agent Peer-to-Peer
applications.
Full Java
Runs on all JVM from J2EE to J2ME MIDP1.0
Downloadable from http://jade.tilab.com

JADE Platform

Directory Facilitator

Directory Facilitator
Provides

a Yellow Pages service by

means of which an agent can find other
agents providing the services he
requires in order to achieve his goals.

Agent Management System (AMS)

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Agent Management System

Provides

the naming service

Ensures

that each agent in the platform has

a unique name

Represents

the authority in the platform

To

create/kill agents on remote containers

by requesting that to the AMS

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Message Transport System

Agent Communication Channel (ACC)

Agent to Agent
Agent Platform to Agent Platform

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Remote Monitoring Agent

Provide the GUI to control agents lifecycle

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Install JDK 1.5

http://java.sun.com/
Download

J2SE Development Kit (JDK) 1.5

The

Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Command-line development tools, such as
compilers and debuggers, that are necessary or
useful for developing applets and applications

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Install JDK 1.5 -- step 1

Web Site

downloads

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Install JDK 1.5 -- step 2

Select Java SE

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Install JDK 1.5 -- step 3

Download

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Other Revisions of JDK

Next Release

Previous Release

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JADE Package
JADE-doc
Document
JADE-src
Source Code
JADE-bin
Binary Code
JADE-example
Example Code
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Install JADE Platform

Library
Batch file

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Install JADE Platform

Write

batch file

run_jade.bat

Include

related library

Base64.jar
http.jar
iiop.jar
jade.jar
jadeTools.jar

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Batch file to start JADE platform

Set

Library Path

set

JADE=C:\jade\lib\base64.jar;C:\jade\lib\http.
jar;C:\jade\lib\iiop.jar;C:\jade\lib\jade.jar;C:\j
ade\lib\jadeTools.jar;./;
Execute
java

Command

-classpath %JADE% jade.Boot -gui

Use Java to start jade platform

Interface

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Run JADE Platform

Run

run_jade.bat

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Connect Remote JADE Platform

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Batch File to Connect the Remote

JADE Platform
Set

Library Path

set

JADE=C:\jade\lib\base64.jar;C:\jade\lib\http.
jar;C:\jade\lib\iiop.jar;C:\jade\lib\jade.jar;C:\j
ade\lib\jadeTools.jar;./;
Set

Connection Command

java

-classpath %JADE% jade.Boot -gui

-container -host 140.116.xxx.xxx
Add new containe

Destination IP
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Connect Remote JADE platform

Execute

connect_remote_jade.bat

Connect

Remote JADE platform

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Example
Book

Seller & Book Buyer

Seller1
Buyer

Seller2

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Implement Agent with Eclipse (1)

Main Function of JADE

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Implement Agent with Eclipse (2)

-gui Seller1 : BookSerllerAgent

Class Name
Agent Name

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Implement Agent with Eclipse (3)

-gui container host localhost Seller2 : BookSerllerAgent

Class Name
Agent Name

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Run Agent on JADE Platform

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Observe Agent Communication Language

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Agent Communication Language

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Agent Communication Language

sender of the message

list of receivers
communicative intention (or performative)
content
content language
ontology
some fields

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Agent Communication Language

Receiving

Messages

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An Example of Sender

An Example of Receiver

BookSellerAgent

BookSellerAgent extends Agent

import jade.core.Agent;
Initial process

Setup()
addBehaviour(new InitBeha())

Agent Behaviour
import jade.core.behaviours.*;

InitBeha extends Behaviour class

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BookSellerAgent Setup()

Service Registration
Service Name
Service Type

Add Behaviour

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BookSellerAgent Takedown()

Service deregistration

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class Behaviour
This

abstract class provides an abstract

base class for modelling agent tasks,
and it sets the basis for behaviour
scheduling as it allows for state
transitions (i.e. starting, blocking and
restarting a Java behaviour object).

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class Behaviour (Cont.)

class

SimpleBehaviour

This abstract class models simple atomic behaviours. Its

reset() method does nothing by default, but it can be
overridden by user defined subclasses.

class OneShotBehaviour

This abstract class models atomic behaviours that must be executed only
once and cannot be blocked. So, its done() method always returns true.

class CyclicBehaviour

This abstract class models atomic behaviours that must be executed

forever. So its done() method always returns false.

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BookSellerAgent OneShotBehaviour()

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BookSellerAgent CyclicBehaviour()

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class Behaviour (Cont.)

class

WakerBehaviour

This

abstract class implements a one-shot

task that must be executed only once just
after a given timeout is elapsed.

class

TickerBehaviour

This

abstract class implements a cyclic task

that must be executed periodically.

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class Behaviour (Cont.)

class

CompositeBehaviour

This abstract class models behaviours that are made up by

composing a number of other behaviours (children). So the
actual operations performed by executing this behaviour are
not defined in the behaviour itself, but inside its children while
the composite behaviour takes only care of children
scheduling according to a given policy.

class SequentialBehaviour

This class is a CompositeBehaviour that executes its sub-behaviours

sequentially and terminates when all sub-behaviours are done. Use this
class when a complex task can be expressed as a sequence of atomic
steps (e.g. do some computation, then receive a message, then do some
other computation).

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class Behaviour (Cont.)

class

ParallelBehaviour

This class is a CompositeBehaviour that executes its sub-behaviours

concurrently and terminates when a particular condition on its subbehaviours is met. Proper constants to be indicated in the constructor of
this class are provided to create a ParallelBehaviour that ends when all
its sub-behaviours are done, when any one among its sub-behaviour
terminates or when a user defined number N of its sub-behaviours have
finished. Use this class when a complex task can be expressed as a
collection of parallel alternative operations, with some kind of termination
condition on the spawned subtasks.

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class Behaviour (Cont.)

class

FSMBehaviour

This class is a CompositeBehaviour that executes its children according

to a Finite State Machine defined by the user. More in details each child
represents the activity to be performed within a state of the FSM and the
user can define the transitions between the states of the FSM. When the
child corresponding to state Si completes, its termination value (as
returned by the onEnd() method) is used to select the transition to fire
and a new state Sj is reached. At next round the child corresponding to Sj
will be executed. Some of the children of an FSMBehaviour can be
registered as final states. The FSMBehaviour terminates after the
completion of one of these children.

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Reference
http://www.fipa.org/

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