Quick Links

• Jar Files required for running the coursework.
• The slides for the second coursework.
• FAQ for this course: This is here to help you, please check here before contact me with a technical question, sombody might have asked it before! It will be updated frequently.
• The courswork starter package This contains the basic framework you should work from. The package also contains source code to all of the tutorials.(see also: the README)
• Jade Home Page
• Protégé Home Page
• Jade Bean Generator Home Page
• Local Jade API documentation
• The example files for these tutorials
• My ontologies presentation and in PDF
• The FIPA Contract Net specification
• An excellent jade primer by Jean Vaucher in Montreal
• Introduction to Jade Presentation slides.

Errata

• 21/11/2003 - fixed classpath for windows in "getting started" should contain iiop.jar
• Added an FAQ manager for this course, please check there first before contacting me.
• 26/11/2003 - modified the content-languages example to use FIPA-REQUEST and incorporate the result inside a Result frame which is both more natural and correct.

Table of contents

1. Getting Jade Installed/working
2. At home with the agents: Your first jade Agent
3. Making your agent do stuff:Agent Behaviors
4. Making your agents talk:Agent Communication,
5. Communicating in a standardised way:Interaction Protocols,
6. Content Languages : A shared understanding
7. The DF: finding other agents
8. Building ontologies for Jade with Protégé