Agent Research Group - JADE and Java

JADE Resources

• Jade Agent system - http://sharon.cselt.it/projects/jade/ - we will be using this for our prototyping work

• JESS - Java expert system shell - http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/jess/ - this is integrated with Jade and allows you to write rules for the agents

• Simple exercises to get started with Jade - http://liawww.epfl.ch/~willmott/IACourse/iac_exercises1.html 

• Note, there are some PowerPoint slides talking about agents in the same directory: - http://liawww.epfl.ch/~willmott/IACourse/ 

• The SL content language specs are at http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00008/XC00008F.pdf - note, the SL0, which is the default one used in Jade are in Chapter 4.1, page 16.

• Some Jade tidbits that we have discovered are here.

Java Resources

• Sun's Java coding convention (for those of us doing Java coding) - http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/ 

• How to write JavaDocs are here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html 

• A decent Java style guide is here: http://geosoft.no/javastyle.html