Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development

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1998-07-26

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R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, James Mayfield, Akram Boughannam, Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development, Workshop on Tools for Agent Development, https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/1998/WS-98-10/WS98-10-009.pdf

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Abstract

Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicating with the KQML agent communication language. Some features which make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation management facilities, flexible, blackboard style interface and ease of integration. Jackal has been developed in support of an investigation of the use of agents in shop oor information ow. This paper describes Jackal at a surface and design level, and presents an example of its use in agent construction.