Development of An Intelligent Agent Shell Supporting An Integrated Agent Building Language
Hai Jin Chang · The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society · 1999
There are many kinds of multi-agent frameworks which support the high-level knowledge representation languages for providing intelligence to their agents. But, the agent programming interfaces of the frameworks require to use some general-purpose programming languages as well as tile knowledge representation languages. In general, knowledge representation languages and general-purpose programming languages are different in their levels and data representation models. The differences can make the problems about tile coupling of the elements which are necessary for developing intelligent agents. This paper describes a new type of intelligent agent shell INAS(INtelligent Agent Shell) version 2 which has developed to cope with the problems. Unlike the previous agent frameworks, INAS supports a high-level integrated agent building language for building intelligent agents by itself. Therefore, the development of intelligent agents by using INAS version 2 does not suffer from the problems of the previous agent frameworks. Through the development of several intelligent agents, we experienced that the agent building language of INAS version 2 could reduce the difficulties of developing intelligent agents.