Subject: RE: [jade-develop] Automatic generation of Finite State Machines
From: Robert Kessler (kessler@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 17:43:09 MET DST
Dick Cowan, Martin Griss, Steve Fonseca and I have done a fair bit of
work on putting UML State charts into Jade. We have several papers that
we wrote about it. The relevant ones are:
SmartAgent: Extending the JADE Agent Behavior Model
and
Using UML Statemachine Models for More Precise and Flexible JADE Agent
Behaviors
These are available on our Agent Research Group web page:
http://control.cs.utah.edu/PAResearch.html
We are working to try to make this freely available, but it isn't there
yet. Our latest version allowed drawing state machine diagrams in Visio
and then automatically generating the code. The drawing and generation
stuff still could use some improvements, but the basic state machine was
good and solid.
Anyway, the papers (mostly the second one, but understanding the first
one helps with the second one), should give you some more info.
Bob.
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Martin
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Subject: [jade-develop] Automatic generation of Finite State Machines
Hi!
We have already worked with the FSMBehaviour.
For each application we have written specific FSMBehaviours
which could not be used otherwise.
Now we want to do something different, more generic:
1. Describe the Finite State Machine in a suitable description language
(perhaps XML or an XML-derivate)
2. During runtime, the agent should read this description, build
automatically
the corresponding FSMBehaviour; and then execute it.
We assume that atomic operations are available as JADE behaviours.
Has anybody worked already in this direction and can give us some hints?
Or knows where related work is done?
Thanks!
Martin
PS:
A further assumption could be:
there are mainly three kinds of states:
- receiving (waiting for something)
- if everything is received or a timeout reached, do something with the
received information
- then send something to other agents
- receive again (which can be a different state from the receive-state
above;
e.g. dependent from the information which the agent waits for.)
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Martin Schneider
Siemens AG
CT IC 6 Intelligent Autonomous Systems
tel.: +49 89 636-44257 fax.: +49 89 636-41423
e-mail: Martin.Schneider@siemens.com
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