Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Software Tools for Agent Development

Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development

R. Scott Cost, Yannis K Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, James Mayfield, Akram Boughannam, and Tim Finin

July 26, 1998

Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features that make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management facilities, flexible, blackboard-style interface, and ease of integration. Jackal has been developed in support of an investigation of the use of agents in shop floor information flow. This paper describes Jackal at a surface and design level and presents an example of its use in agent construction.

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Tags: agent, java, kqml, multi-agent systems

Type: InProceedings

Publisher: AAAI Press

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