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CW 473
Danny Weyns, Elke Steegmans, Tom Holvoet, Els Helsen, and Koen Deschacht
Delta framework cookbook
Abstract
The Delta framework was built to help software developers to develop situated multi-agent systems. This framework is based on the reference-architecture for situated multi-agent systems that was developed by the AgentWise taskforce at DistriNet labs, K.U.Leuven. The Delta framework can be used for very different kinds of multi-agent systems. Multi-agent systems using a software environment as well as multi-agent systems in the physical world are supported.
A framework is organized in two parts: a core (also called frozen-spot) that is common to all applications derived from the framework, and hot-spots that represent the variable parts which allow a framework to be instantiated for a particular application. Because the Delta framework contains a high number of hot spots, its application is not an easy task. This cookbook gives a general description of the Delta framework, together with a set of recipes. Each recipe explains how a particular hot-spot of the framework can be applied. Illustrative examples show how the developer can instantiate the various hot-spots for an application at hand.
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