This software realises a mechanism for integrating Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) reasoning into agents within an agent-based simulation (ABM). The concept is described in the following papers:
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Dhirendra Singh, Lin Padgham, Kai Nagel. Using MATSim as a Component in Dynamic Agent-Based Micro-Simulations International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS), pages 85-105, 2019.
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Dhirendra Singh, Lin Padgham, Brian Logan. Integrating BDI agents with Agent Based Simulation Platforms. Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems 30, pages 1050–1071, 2016.
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Lin Padgham, Dhirendra Singh. Making MATSim Agents Smarter with the Belief-Desire-Intention Framework Horni, A., Nagel, K. and Axhausen, K.W. (eds.) The Multi-Agent Transport Simulation MATSim, pages 201-210, 2016. Ubiquity Press London.
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Lin Padgham, Kai Nagel, Dhirendra Singh, Qingyu Chen. Integrating BDI Agents into a MATSim Simulation. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (ECAI) 263, pages 681-686, 2014.
Examples of BDI-ABM applications are provided in the ./examples
directory.
Any BDI-ABM application consists of three layers. A generic first layer
(./integrations/bdi-abm
) manages the high level interaction and message
passing between the BDI and the ABM system. A second platform specific
layer realises the connection between a specific BDI platform (such as
JACK, i.e., ./integrations/abm-jack
), and a specific ABM system (such
as MATSim, i.e., ./integrations/bdi-matsim
). Finally, a third application
layer puts these together along with domain specific code (for instance
`./examples/bushfire).
Overall, the repository consists of integrations and examples. Integrations
are platform specific and live in ./integrations
. Examples are domain
specific, and live in ./examples
. The following integrations
are provided:
Integration | Directory | Description |
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BDI-ABM | ./integrations/bdi-abm |
BDI-ABM communication and data layer |
BDI-GAMS | ./integrations/bdi-gams |
Integration for GAMS (www.gams.com) |
BDI-MATSim | ./integrations/bdi-matsim |
Integration for MATSim (www.matsim.org) |
ABM-JACK | ./integrations/abm-jack |
Integration for JACK (aosgrp.com/products/jack) |
ABM-Jill | ./integrations/abm-jill |
Integration for Jill (http://agentsoz.github.io/jill) |
ABM-Jadex | ./integrations/abm-jadex |
Integration for Jadex (http://www.activecomponents.org/bin/view/About/Features) |
Integrations are pulled together to build application examples. The following examples are provided:
Example | Directory | Description |
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Bushfire | ./examples/bushfire |
Uses Jill and MATSim |
Bushfire Tutorial | ./examples/bushfire-tutorial |
Uses JACK and MATSim |
Conservation Ethics | ./examples/conservation |
Uses Jill and GAMS |
Child Vaccination | ./examples/vaccination |
Uses JACK and a custom Python-based ABM |
In addition to above, the repository consists of an util project. It lives in
./util
and contains the utility classes used by integration libraries and example
applications in the repository.
Project | Directory | Description |
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Util | ./util |
Contains utility classes for integration libraries and example applications |
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Java Development Kit 1.8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Development_Kit
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Apache Maven 3.3.* http://maven.apache.org
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Some of the integrations (e.g., JACK, GAMS) require third-party libraries to be installed in your local Maven repository. See the respective READMEs (
./integrations/*/README.md
) for details. The project will not build unless these dependencies have been resolved.
See examples/bushfire/README.md
.
- Build the bdi-abm-integration layer: In the source repository
/
, domvn clean install -N
- Build the BDI-ABM library: See
/integrations/bdi-abm/README.md
for instructions - Build the BDI-GAMS library: See
/integrations/bdi-gams/README.md
for instructions - Build the ABM-Jill library: See
/integrations/abm-jill/README.md
for instructions - Build the Conservation application: In
/examples/conservation
, domvn clean install
- Build the bdi-abm-integration layer: In the source repository
/
, domvn clean install -N
- Build the BDI-ABM library: See
/integrations/bdi-abm/README.md
for instructions - Build the ABM-JACK library: See
/integrations/abm-jack/README.md
for instructions - Build the Bushfire application: In
/examples/vaccination
, domvn clean install
BDI-ABM Integration Package Copyright (C) 2014, 2015 by its authors. See AUTHORS file.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
For contact information, see AUTHORS file.