面向Agent编程—编程技术的一次飞跃

一、引言冯·诺依曼的“存储程序,程序控制”思想,使人们看到了用计算机模拟人的智能行为成为可能,1958年H.A.Simon和A.Newell对AI的一些乐观的十年估计,除了计算机下棋的目标比较接近外,其它的一些预测,直到今天还是预言,为了AI的目标,编程技术已经走过了两个阶段,面向规则的编程和面向对象编程。     

移动区域建模在Agent仿真中的应用

目前有关移动区域的应用不断增加,而传统的移动点模型已不能很好地适应移动区域的应用。为此,针对基于移动点Agent模型的局限性,提出一种新的基于移动区域的Agent模型,该模型结合新Agent技术及XML技术,将仿真运行过程中的Agent状态记录到移动对象XML数据库,以便于仿真回放和仿真事后分析。仿真实验结果证明了该模型的可行性。     

Agent规范与编程语言SPLAW的语法和语义

本文描述了Ａｇｅｎｔ规范与编程语言ＳＰＬＡＷ的语法，为ＳＰＬＡＷ中的各种语言成分提供了操作语义，并基于标记转换系统给出Ａｇｅｎｔ性质的证明规则。由于ＳＰＬＡＷ的通信部分采用不依赖于具体应用的Ａｇｅｎｔ交互语言ＫＱＭＬ，使遵循同一标准的Ａｇｅｎｔ之间能进行协作问题求解。ＳＰＬＡＷ首次为Ａｇｅｎｔ提供继承支持，使其可以实现具有面向对象特征的多线程系统。ＳＰＬＡＷ屏了为语言引入内部模态词的缺陷，试图从外     

A comprehensive view of agent-oriented patterns

This paper presents a comprehensive framework for classifying, analyzing and describing agent-oriented software patterns. We present a two dimensional scheme for classifying agent-oriented patterns. We define agent-oriented pattern attributes and use these attributes in a process for analyzing and placing agent-oriented patterns within the classification scheme. Using the proposed classification scheme, we classify 28 patterns written by a variety of agent researchers, chosen from almost 100 patterns which we have studied.     

Programming with event loops and control loops – From actors to agents

Event loops are a main control architecture to implement actors. In this paper we first analyse the impact that this choice has on the design of actor-based concurrent programs. Then, we discuss control loops as the main architecture adopted to implement agents, and we frame them as an extension of event loops effective to improve the programming of autonomous components that need to integrate both reactive and proactive behaviors, in a modular way.     

RPL:一种基于反应式Agent的机器人编程语言

开放环境下的机器人具有环境敏感性、行为自主性和并发性、反应实时性等特点,这对支撑这类机器人的控制软件及其编程语言提出了新的要求,包括支持对环境进行显式表示,支持自主和并发的行为,需要对行为间在时间、空间、物理上的关系进行规约等等.面向Agent的编程语言将软件系统的基本执行单元视为自主的软件Agent,它为机器人控制软件的构造提供了新的方法和思路.针对开放环境下机器人特点对其编程语言的要求,提出了基于反应式Agent的编程模型RECA和编程语言RPL.RECA将单个机器人的软件系统视为一个反应式Agent,它包括Sen-sorEvent、EventRule和ScenarioBehaviour 3个组成部分,其中SensorEvent是对机器人所处环境信息变化的一种封装;ScenarioBehaviour是对机器人的不同行为进行的规约;EventRule定义了机器人环境输入到行为输出的动态绑定关系.RPL提供了一系列的机制来支持机器人控制软件的编程,包括事件机制、多线程机制、优先级描述、行为动态绑定.最后介绍了RPL程序开发和运行支撑环境的技术框架,并基于NAO机器人分析了机器人作为老人生活助理的案例,验证了该编程模型、语言和运行支撑环境的有效性.     

simpA: An agent-oriented approach for programming concurrent applications on top of Java

More and more aspects of concurrency and concurrent programming are becoming part of mainstream programming and software engineering, due to several factors such as the widespread availability of multi-core/parallel architectures and Internet-based systems. This leads to the extension of mainstream object-oriented programming languages and platforms-Java is a main example-with libraries providing fine-grained mechanisms and idioms to support concurrent programming, in particular for building efficient programs. Besides this fine-grained support, a main research goal in this context is to devise higher-level, coarse-grained abstractions that would help building concurrent programs, as pure object-oriented abstractions help building large component-based programs. To this end, in this paper we present simpA, a Java-based framework that provides programmers with agent-oriented abstractions on top of the basic OO layer, as a means to organize and structure concurrent applications. We first describe the application programming interface (API) and annotation framework provided to Java programmers for building simpA applications, and then we discuss the main features of the approach from a software engineering point of view, by showing some programming examples. Finally, we define an operational semantics formalizing the main aspects of this programming model.     

面向Agent软件开发方法的评估

面向Agent的软件开发在构建复杂系统中具有明显的优势,但当前没有建立面向Agent系统的统一方法,缺乏必要的软件工程环境提供支持.分析了基于Agent的应用程序的优点,提出了其适用领域,通过对多个方法学的分析提出了构成Agent系统所必需的属性.     

面向Agent开发策略探讨

面向Agent技术是新兴的软件开发技术,目前面向Agent开发缺乏系统化开发方法,面临不少问题和困难。文本分析了面向Agent开发的现状及存在的问题,并针对这些问题,提出了应对的解决办法和面向Agent开发的若干策略。