Supporting multi-agent systems life cycle by integrating Protege and Prometheus. (12th July 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sokolova, Marina V.; Fernandez-Caballero, Antonio
• Is Part Of: International journal of intelligent information and database systems. Volume 4:Number 3(2010)
• Page Start: 227
• Page End: 244
• Publication Date: 2010-07-12
• Subjects: ontologies -- knowledge representation -- agent-oriented software engineering -- AOSE -- Protege -- Prometheus -- multi-agent systems -- MAS life cycle -- agent-based systems -- environmental impact -- human health -- Spain; Database management -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Information retrieval -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Artificial intelligence -- Periodicals; Expert systems (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Intelligent agents (Computer software) -- Periodicals; 006.33
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-5858

Abstract

In this paper, an approach aiming to support the complete multi-agent systems (MAS) life cycle is proposed. Two existing and widely accepted tools, Protege Ontology Editor and Knowledge-Base Framework and Prometheus Development Kit, are integrated, offering a general sequence of steps facilitating application creation. It seems reasonable to integrate all traditional software development stages into one single methodology, which can provide a general approach for MAS creation, starting with problem definition and resulting in program coding, deployment and maintenance. The approach is successfully being applied to situation assessment issues, which has concluded in an agent-based decision-support system for environmental impact evaluation. An example is offered to evaluate the impact of environmental parameters upon human health in Spanish region Castilla-La Mancha, in general, and in the city of Albacete, in particular.