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BDI-ABM Integration Package

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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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

How to use this software

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
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
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
Util ./util Contains utility classes for integration libraries and example applications

Build Dependencies

  • Java Development Kit 1.8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Development_Kit

  • Apache Maven 3.3.* http://maven.apache.org

  • 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.

Compiling

Bushfire example

See examples/bushfire/README.md.

Conservation Example

  1. Build the bdi-abm-integration layer: In the source repository /, do mvn clean install -N
  2. Build the BDI-ABM library: See /integrations/bdi-abm/README.md for instructions
  3. Build the BDI-GAMS library: See /integrations/bdi-gams/README.md for instructions
  4. Build the ABM-Jill library: See /integrations/abm-jill/README.md for instructions
  5. Build the Conservation application: In /examples/conservation, do mvn clean install

Vaccination Example (probably outdated as of 11/Sep/2018)

  1. Build the bdi-abm-integration layer: In the source repository /, do mvn clean install -N
  2. Build the BDI-ABM library: See /integrations/bdi-abm/README.md for instructions
  3. Build the ABM-JACK library: See /integrations/abm-jack/README.md for instructions
  4. Build the Bushfire application: In /examples/vaccination, do mvn clean install

License

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.