DECAF swMATH ID: 4849 Software Authors: Graham, John R.; Decker, Keith S. Description: Towards a distributed, environment-centered agent framework This paper discuss the internal architecture for an agent framework called DECAF (Distributed Environment Centered Agent Framework). DECAF is a software toolkit for the rapid design, development, and execution of “intelligent” agents to achieve solutions in complex software systems. From a research community perspective, DECAF provides a modular platform for evaluating and disseminating results in agent architectures, including communication, planning, scheduling, execution monitoring, coordination, diagnosis, and learning. From a user/programmer perspective, DECAF distinguishes itself by removing the focus from the underlying components of agent building such as socket creation, message formatting, and agent communication. Instead, users may quickly prototype agent systems by focusing on the domain-specific parts of the problem via a graphical plan editor, reusable generic behaviors, and various supporting middle-agents. This paper briefly describe the key portions of the DECAF toolkit and as well as some of the internal details of the agent execution framework. While not all of the modules have yet been completely realized, DECAF has already been used for teaching purposes, allowing student teams, initially untutored in agent systems, to quickly build prototype multi-agent formation gathering systems. Homepage: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~decaf/ Keywords: internal architecture for an agent framework; DECAF; multi-agent systems Related Software: Voyager; GroupKit; GOLOG; ABLE; Jason; TAEMS; Oz; METATEM; Mozart; JavaLog; JAFMAS; CLIPS; AgentSpeak; ConGolog Cited in: 11 Publications all top 5 Cited by 24 Authors 3 Decker, Keith S. 1 Amandi, Analía 1 Baral, Chitta R. 1 Barthelmess, P. 1 Busetta, Paolo 1 Campo, Marcelo R. 1 Chen, Wei 1 Cho, Young Im 1 Ellis, Clarence A. 1 Graham, John R. 1 Hodgson, Andrew 1 Howden, Nicholas 1 Khan, Salim 1 Laird, John E. 1 Michaud, Dennis 1 Rönnquist, Ralph 1 Schmidt, Carl 1 Son, Tran Cao 1 Sycara, Katia P. 1 Takashina, Tomomi 1 Tanaka, Kazuhide 1 Watanabe, Shigeyoshi 1 Wray, R. E. 1 Zunino, Alejandro Cited in 2 Serials 1 The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 1 Computer Languages, Systems & Structures Cited in 2 Fields 11 Computer science (68-XX) 1 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) Citations by Year